Whereas traditional DNA sequencing methods rely on costly chemical reactions and unscalable machinery, the device only uses DNA and water and allows system-on-a-chip identification. Our theoretical analysis, supported by finite element data, shows that it surpasses the capabilities of all other non-traditional DNA sequencing technologies: We show that a feasibly manufacturable device should be able to classify with approximately 2~19 base accuracy a DNA molecule of arbitrarily long length comprised of two concatenated strands of a single base type.

We also discuss the manufacturing process, the tolerance in the various physical design parameters and their effects on performance. As current molecular dynamics technology is insufficient to accurately capture all the intricacies of the system, we present sufficient information for a full molecular dynamics simulation to be implemented in future work.