DNA Computing : 8th International Workshop on DNA Based Computers DNA8 Sapporo Japan June 10–13 2002 Revised Papers This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on DNA Based Computers DNA8 held in Sapporo Japan in June 2002. The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from an initial total of 68 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on self assembly and autonomous molecular computation molecular evolution and application to biotechnology applications to mathematical problems nucleic acid sequence design and theory