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|date=2015/05/12
|abstract=Everyone makes mistakes. That applies to molecules too: during self-assembly, for example, sometimes the wrong molecule arrives at the wrong place, and sticks -- resulting in the growth of an ill-formed structure. But there's a solution: double check, triple check, quadruple check. In DNA tile self-assembly theory, there is a natural way to do this, using proofreading tile sets. Here we demonstrate, experimentally, that assembly error rates decrease exponentially with molecular designs that allow increased levels of proofreading. 
|authors=Rebecca Schulman, Christina Wright, and Erik Winfree
|file=[http://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/zig-zag-proofreading2015.pdf Increasing Redundancy Exponentially Reduces Error Rates during Algorithmic Self-Assembly.pdf]
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