Research Interests for John H. Reif

Molecular assembly, DNA computing, robot motion planning, parallel algorithms, randomized algorithms, graph algorithms, algebraic computations, data compression, and optical computation.

Keywords:

algebraic, algorithms, Computers, Molecular, DNA, Molecular motor, Molecular computation, motion planning, Nanobiotechnology, nanostructure, Nanostructures, Nanotechnology, optical computing, parallel, randomized, robot

Representative Publications   (search)

1. Peng Yin, Rizal F. Hariadi, Sudheer Sahu, Harry M.T.Choi, Sung Ha Park, Thomas H. LaBean, John H. Reif, Programming DNA Tube Circumferences, Science, Vol. 321. no. 5890, pp. 824–826 (August 8, 2008) (DOI: 10.1126/science.1157312.) [pdf]
2. John H. Reif and Thomas H. LaBean, Autonomous Programmable Biomolecular Devices Using Self-Assembled DNA Nanostructures, Communications of the ACM (CACM), Special Section entitled “New Computing Paradigms (edited by Toshinori Munakata), Volume 50, Issue 9, pp. 46-53 (September, 2007) [pdf]
3. Sudheer Sahu, Thom H. LaBean and John H. Reif, A DNA Nanotransport Device Powered by Polymerase, Nano Letters, vol. 8 no. 11 (October, 2008), pp. 3870–3878
4. Sudheer Sahu and John H. Reif, Capabilities and Limits of Compact Error Resilience Methods for Algorithmic Self-Assembly in Two and Three Dimensions, Algorithmica (2008) [pdf]
5. Urmi Majumder, John H. Reif, and Sudheer Sahu, Stochastic Analysis of Reversible Self-Assembly. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Volume 5, Number 7, pp. 1289-1305 (July, 2008) [pdf]