The theory of evolution in this century is now actually a series of theories (called the sinthetic theory of evolution). This theory is an alternative to evolution as Darwin thought of it as it has other forces of speciation (change in genetic frequencies that lead to new species) a part from...
I do not work in the area (Biology degree student) yet I can reffer you to a couple of papers on DNA computing.
The classic paper by Leonard Adelman(1994) on solving a hamiltonian path problem with DNA http://www.ra.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~virazela/Seminar/adl94.pdf"
A recent paper...