DNA fix school timetables
Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 09:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Scientists in Russia plan to use DNA - our genetic material - to help them solve one of the perennial "back to school" problems faced by school administrators the world over: how to match up students, with classes and available teachers. Writing in the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, the team explains how DNA's ability to store information can be used to encode the timetabling problem and then a solution read out using enzymes.