Staged Self-Assembly and Polyomino Context-Free Grammars Andrew Winslow Defense Edition
Simple particles coalescing into complex superstructures. Self-Assembly
Simple particles coalescing into complex superstructures.
Self-Assembly Simple particles coalescing into complex superstructures.
Self-Assembly Simple particles coalescing into complex superstructures.
Crystallization
Morphogenesis
Natural Self-Assembly
Synthetic Self-Assembly with DNA
Tile
Glues
Our work: Study an abstract self-assembly model based on DNA tile systems.
Tile
Glues
Assembly
Mixing
Bin
Reagents
Products
Size
Staged self-assembly
InputOutput (polyomino) (small staged assembly system)
n Input
Θ( n) system size
Θ (log(n)) system size
n Θ (n) Θ (log(n))
Input
Study a simplified model. Finding small systems is (NP-)hard.
Rule
Grammar
Ο (#glues 2 ) Ω (n 1/2 /log(n)), Ο (n 2/3 ) Staged System ? ? ? One dimension Ο (1) E. D. Demaine, S. Eisenstat, M. Ishaque, A. Winslow, One-dimensional staged self-assembly, DNA 17, Grammar ? ? ?
? ?
Polyomino Grammar
w/scaling Two dimensions GrammarStaged System … … A. Winslow, Staged Self-Assembly and Polyomino Context-Free Grammars, DNA 19, Ω (n/log 3 n) Ο (log(n)) Macrotile
? ? ? ? ? ?
Values
Values are distinct Values are contiguous
Activation
? ? ?
Shifting [1..3] +4
Shifting [4..6] +4
Activation Shifting [1..3] +4
? ? ?
[2..5] +3
? ? ?
[1..4] +2
? ? ?
[1..4] +4
Reagent 1 Reagent 2 Product Activated reagent 1 Shifted reagent 2 Activated & shifted reagent 2
? ? ? ? ? ?
A R1 S R2 A & S R2 A R1 S R2 A & S R2 A R1 S R2 A & S R2
A R1 S R2 A & S R2 A R1 S R2 A & S R2 A R1 S R2 A & S R2 w/scaling Ο (log(n))
… … Ω (n/log 3 n)
Ο (loglog(n)) … Ω (n/loglog(n)) …
… … Ο (log(n)) Ω (n/log 2 n)
Ο (log(n)) … Ω (n/log 2 n) …
GrammarStaged System Ο (1) Ω (n 1/2 /log(n)), Ο (n 2/3 ) w/scaling Ο (log(n)) Ω (n/log 3 n) Grammars are small, staged systems are always smaller
Thank you Committee: Diane Souvaine Erik Demaine Ben Hescott Lenore Cowen Hyunmin Yi Collaborators: Matthew Patitz Sarah Eisenstat Robert Schweller Mashhood Ishaque Damien Woods NSF grants and