The 14th international meeting on DNA computation took place in the Czech Republic in Prague
June 2 9 2008. During the last 14 years the DNA C- puting meetings have been the key forum at
the boundary between computer science biochemistry and nanotechnology where the most recent
results have been presented and their authors have met. Their scienti?c program includes
mathematical foundations and theoretical study of DNA computing or b- computing in general and
recent experimental results in DNA nanotechnology nanoscience and nanocomputing. It continues
to be one of the most exciting interdisciplinary meetings as exempli?ed by the diverse nature
of contributions in this volume. The meeting began with tutorial talks by Friedrich Simmel (
Molecular - ology for Computer Scientists ) Nadrian Seeman ( Structural DNA Nanote- nology )
and Yasubumi Sakakibara ( Formal Grammars for DNA Compu- tion and Bioinformatics ). During the
meeting a number of excellent keynote speakers gave an up-to-date overview of di?erent aspects
of DNA computing and biochemical information processing. Luca Cardelli talked about Molecules
as Automata while Niles Pierce gave an exciting talk entitled Molecular Choreography
ProgrammingNucleicAcidSelf-AssemblyandDisassemblyPa- ways. Inamorebiologicaltalk
LauraLandweberdiscussed RNA-Guided E-
geneticProgrammingandRe-programmingofGenomicInformationinCiliates and Ming Li gave an overview
of Modern Homology Search. The meeting was concluded by a Nanoday with beautiful presentations
by Christof Niemeyer Kurt Gothelf Andrew Ellington and David Pine.
