DNA Image Pro -- A Tool for Generating Pixel Patterns using DNA Tile Assembly
This work addresses the challenge of creating pixel patterns for researchers in DNA computing and nanotechnology, but it appears incremental as it applies existing models to new pattern types.
The authors tackled the problem of generating pixel patterns using the abstract Tile Assembly Model (aTAM) for DNA self-assembly, resulting in a software tool called DNA Image Pro that can produce images and specific cyclic pixel patterns through self-assembly processes.
Self-assembly is a process found everywhere in the Nature. In particular, it is known that DNA self-assembly is Turing universal. Thus one can do arbitrary computations or build nano-structures using DNA self-assembly. In order to understand the DNA self-assembly process, many mathematical models have been proposed in the literature. In particular, abstract Tile Assembly Model (aTAM) received much attention. In this work, we investigate pixel pattern generation using aTAM. For a given image, a tile assembly system is given which can generate the image by self-assembly process. We also consider image blocks with specific cyclic pixel patterns (uniform shift and non uniform shift) self assembly. A software, DNA Image Pro, for generating pixel patterns using DNA tile assembly is also given.