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An automaton built with DNA enzymes plays tic-tac-toe against human players.
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Figure 1: Representative game board and computational deoxyribozymes.

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Figure 2: Signal tranduction pathway via protein or nucleic acid.

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Jeffrey J Tabor & Andrew D Ellington
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Tabor, J., Ellington, A. Playing to win at DNA computation.Nat Biotechnol 21, 1013–1015 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0903-1013
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