# Summary of IRC Log from #hplusroadmap (August 17, 2014)

* Several academic papers on DNA nanotechnology were shared, including "Dynamic DNA nanotechnology using strand-displacement reactions" and "Autonomous molecular cascades for evaluation of cell surfaces," highlighting research on DNA-based computational mechanisms.

* Microsoft Research's work on DNA programming was discussed, including a programming language for composable DNA circuits that uses strand displacement as the main computational mechanism.

* The Molecular Programming Project website (molecular-programming.org) was mentioned as being updated, with links to research on DNA-based information processing circuits.

* A user shared their experience with OCR text extraction from PDFs, noting that Tesseract OCR processes TIFF images significantly better than PNG images, with PNG output being "95% garbled" compared to successful TIFF processing.

* A paper on water-soluble fullerene derivatives and their effect on neurite outgrowth in NGF-treated PC12 cells was shared and discussed, suggesting interest in nanomaterials for biological applications.

* A link to a GitHub repository for pyPolyCSG was shared, which appears to be a new computational geometry tool.

* Flocker, a lightweight volume and container manager for deploying applications across multiple hosts, was mentioned as a potentially useful development tool.