LOL, that would have made for an interesting science class!
(Seriously, there is a current search for a North American primate in the Cascades - Bigfoot?)
There is no abstract DNA-ness that can be converted to a silicon template in a manner I can imagine.
Yes, silicon is far out. DNA is clearly bound in the H-C complex.
DNA produces highly organized protoplasm that carries out processes of life. Science would have us believe that DNA self-assembled at some point in time, and the molecule accidentally acted as a factory to produce other molecules that just happened to work together to serve and protect the DNA. And as these other molecules went about their duties, they accidentally fashioned a wide variety of structures and mechanisms that gave these bags of protoplasm the ability to move around, interact, and eventually, think and discover facts about the universe. And further, the protoplasm organized the DNA (or the DNA organized the protoplasm) such that the blueprint for an individual could be passed on. Fantastic!
No, science would not have us believe that. See the works of Woese for a more accurate picture of what science thinks. Instantaneous abiogensis is a creationist boogyman, not an actual holding of modern science.