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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
===Binary Addition=== | ===Binary Addition=== | ||
| + | When working in binary, only two digits are used: 0 and 1. Counting therefore proceeds as: | ||
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| + | 0: 0 | ||
| + | 1: 1 | ||
| + | 2: 10 | ||
| + | 3: 11 | ||
| + | 4: 100 | ||
| + | 5: 101 | ||
| + | 6: 111 | ||
| + | etc. | ||
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| + | To add two binary numbers, the process is much the same as adding two decimal (ordinary) numbers, except that instead of carrying when two digits add to ten, carrying must be performed when two digits add to two. In other words, 0 + 1 adds to 1, but 1 + 1 adds to 0 with a carry of 1, which gives 10 (just as in decimal 1 + 9 would add to 0 with a carry of 1, to give 10). | ||
===Half Adder=== | ===Half Adder=== | ||
===DNA as Logic Gates=== | ===DNA as Logic Gates=== | ||
Revision as of 17:34, 21 October 2007
University of Waterloo iGEM Team Contents |
Our Team
The UW iGEM team is a very interdisciplinary group. Our team members span the three faculties of Science, Mathematics and Engineering and include the programs of Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Mathematical Physics at undergraduate and graduate levels. Even our professor advisors are cross-appointed to two other faculties. Our diverse backgrounds bring together a wide range of skills and ideas to the iGEM project. iGEM is giving us the opportunity to apply the skills learned in our lectures and labs to real life applications in molecular biology and biotechnology.
Abstract
Background
Binary Addition
When working in binary, only two digits are used: 0 and 1. Counting therefore proceeds as:
0: 0 1: 1 2: 10 3: 11 4: 100 5: 101 6: 111 etc.
To add two binary numbers, the process is much the same as adding two decimal (ordinary) numbers, except that instead of carrying when two digits add to ten, carrying must be performed when two digits add to two. In other words, 0 + 1 adds to 1, but 1 + 1 adds to 0 with a carry of 1, which gives 10 (just as in decimal 1 + 9 would add to 0 with a carry of 1, to give 10).
Half Adder
DNA as Logic Gates
Project Details
Inputs (stimuli and the genes used to detect them)
Output (observable change and what it represents)
Gene Diagram
Testing/Results
Mathematical Model
Measurements
Extensions
Full Adder
==Acknowledgements== (Sponsor logos)
