Bio computers use systems of biologically derived molecules—such as DNA and proteins—to perform computational calculations involving storing, retrieving, and processing data.
The development of bio-computers has been made possible by the expanding new science of NANO-Biotechnology. The term NANO-Biotechnology can be defined in multiple ways; in a more general sense, NANO-Biotechnology can be defined as any type of technology that uses both NANO-Scale materials (i.e. materials having characteristic dimensions of 1- 100 nanometers) and biologically based materials.
A more restrictive definition views NANO-Biotechnology more specifically as the design and engineering of proteins that can then be assembled into larger, functional structures.
The implementation of NANO-Biotechnology, as defined in this narrower sense, provides scientists with the ability to engineer bio-molecular systems specifically so that they interact in a fashion that can ultimately result in the computational functionality of a computer.
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