title: Rate-independent constructs for chemical computation.
abstract: This paper presents a collection of computational modules implemented with chemical reactions: an inverter, an incrementer, a decrementer, a copier, a comparator, a multiplier, an exponentiator, a raise-to-a-power operation, and a logarithm in base two. Unlike previous schemes for chemical computation, this method produces designs that are dependent only on coarse rate categories for the reactions ("fast" vs. "slow"). Given such categories, the computation is exact and independent of the specific reaction rates. The designs are validated through stochastic simulations of the chemical kinetics.
authors: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America. senu0004@umn.edu
authors: Phillip
authors: P
authors: Senum
authors: Marc
authors: M
authors: Riedel
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D007700:Kinetics; D008956:Models, Chemical