Performing CTL model checking via DNA computing

The computation using deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules provides an enormous parallel method that breaks through the limitations of the efficiency of traditional electronic computers. Model checking is a standard formal verification technique, which has been widely used in many fields of computation. It is also a well-known complex problem in computing theory. Until now, there is only one basic formula in the computation tree logic (CTL), for which model checking via DNA computing can be conducted. To this end, Adleman’s model based on DNA computing is used in this paper, based on which a series of DNA-computing-based model-checking algorithms to check the four basic CTL formulas are proposed. As a result, a core of the DNA version of the CTL model-checking problem is solved. The simulated experimental results show that the new algorithms are valid and can be properly implemented in molecular biology.

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