Methods of chemical computation
The invention provides methods for computing with chemicals by encoding digital data into a plurality of chemicals to obtain a dataset; translating the dataset into a chemical form; reading the data set; querying the dataset by performing an operation to obtain a perceptron; and analyzing the perceptron for identifying chemical structure and/or concentration of at least one of the chemicals, thereby developing a chemical computational language. The invention demonstrates a workflow for representing abstract data in synthetic metabolomes. Also presented are several demonstrations of kilobyte-scale image data sets stored in synthetic metabolomes, recovered at >99% accuracy.
1. A method for computing with chemicals, the method comprising the steps of:
(a) encoding an abstract digital data into a plurality of liquid volumes of a plurality of chemicals to obtain a dataset;
(b) translating the dataset into a chemical form;
(c) creating the data set using spectrometry, spectroscopy, or a combination of both assay methods;
(d) querying the dataset by performing a volumetric operation to obtain a perceptron; and
(e) analyzing the perceptron for identifying chemical structure, concentration, or another characteristic of at least one of the chemicals,
thereby developing a chemical computational language.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the abstract digital data comprises a binary computer language.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein translating further comprises assembling a library of chemicals in the dataset.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein volumetric operation is performed robotically.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein volumetric operation further comprises a programmed standard volumetric transfer.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein, the plurality of liquid volumes of the plurality of chemicals are a mixture of different chemical molecules.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the abstract digital data comprises presence or absence of chemical molecules in the mixture.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein spectrometry comprises mass spectrometry.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein spectroscopy comprises at least one of:
ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, Rydberg spectroscopy, Infrared spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, and absorption spectroscopy.
10. A method for computing with chemicals, the method comprising the steps of:
(a) encoding digital data into a plurality of chemicals to obtain a dataset and
(b) translating the dataset into a chemical form;
(c) reading the data set using spectrometry and/or spectroscopy and querying the dataset by performing an operation to obtain a perceptron; and
(d) analyzing the perceptron for identifying chemical structure, concentration, or another characteristic of at least one of the chemicals,
thereby developing a chemical computational language.
11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the operation further comprises at least one of a volumetric transfer or a chemical reaction.
12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising the step of measuring a rate constant and/or an equilibrium constant of the chemical reaction.
13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the chemical reaction further comprises an Ugi reaction to obtain at least one Ugi product molecule.
14. The method of claim 11 , wherein reacting further comprises substituting the reaction groups.
15. The method of claim 10 , further comprising the step of synthesizing a new chemical.
16. The method of claim 10 , wherein digital data comprises a computer language.
17. The method of claim 10 , wherein the plurality of chemicals further comprises a plurality of liquid volumes.
18. The method of claim 10 , wherein the plurality of chemicals are a mixture of different chemical molecules.
19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the digital data comprises presence or absence of chemical molecules in the mixture.
20. The method of claim 10 , wherein spectrometry comprises mass spectrometry.
21. The method of claim 10 , wherein spectroscopy comprises at least one of:
ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, Rydberg spectroscopy, Infrared spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, and absorption spectroscopy.
22. The method of claim 10 , wherein the plurality of chemicals comprise reaction groups.
23. The method of claim 10 , wherein reacting further comprises changing pH of at least one of the plurality of chemicals.