You raise some intriguing ideas but the unfortunate reality is that currently any computing using a biological (DNA based) system can only be used to solve a very specific subset of the total types of problems Computing Science has been tasked with addressing today. You are not going to be running Doom 4 on a massively parallel home DNA computer. But you can solve large recursive problems with a very carefully set up inital setup (Read weeks to months) using nucletides acting as symbols in your algorithm.
Current computing maps to biological computing at an abstract level but the time required and the level of knowledge required to pull it off make prohibitively difficult.
Maybe it will be ready for Doom 6.
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You raise some intriguing ideas but the unfortunate reality is that currently any computing using a biological (DNA based) system can only be used to solve a very specific subset of the total types of problems Computing Science has been tasked with addressing today. You are not going to be running Doom 4 on a massively parallel home DNA computer. But you can solve large recursive problems with a very carefully set up inital setup (Read weeks to months) using nucletides acting as symbols in your algorithm. Current computing maps to biological computing at an abstract level but the time required and the level of knowledge required to pull it off make prohibitively difficult. Maybe it will be ready for Doom 6.