Modeling and Sequencing the Elements of a Bent Linear DNA Array
By Seth Fichtelberg
Nanostructures are constructed from carbon nanotubes as well as small nanoparticles on the scale of 0.000 000 001 meters. In recent years, DNA has come to be used in nanotechnology as a structural base material. DNA is prized in this regard for its unique property of Watson-Crick complementary base pairing. This natural process can be exploited to allow for the self-assembly of segments of DNA. Base pairing itself is an extremely primitive example of self-assembly. Because DNA naturally uses this process to form many different shapes, it is a very pliable material that is easily shaped simply by altering nucleotide sequences. Thus, self-assembly of DNA is cheaper, easier, and more desirable than physical manipulation…..