Nanomaterial-based electrochemical DNA sensing strategies

DNA sensing strategies have recently been varieted with the number of attempts at the development of different biosensor devices based on nanomaterials, which will further become DNA microchip systems. The investigations at the side of material science in connection with electrochemical biosensors open new directions for detection of specific gene sequences, and nucleic acid-ligand interactions.An overview is reported here about nanomaterial-based electrochemical DNA sensing strategies principally performed for the analysis of specific DNA sequences and the quantification of nucleic acids. Important features of electrochemical DNA sensing strategies, along with new developments based on nanomaterials are described and discussed.