My acquaintance with Ned Seeman began in the Caltech library sometimeudduring 1992. At the time, I was trying to design a DNA computer and wasudcollecting papers in an attempt to learn all the biochemical tricks ever performedudwith DNA. Among the papers was Ned and Junghuei Chen's beautifuludconstruction of a DNA cube [2]. I had no idea how to harness such a marveludfor computation - the diagrams explaining the cube were in a visual languageudthat I could not parse and its static structure, once formed, did not seem toudallow further information processing. However, I was in awe of the cube andudwondered what kind of mad and twisted genius had conjured it.
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