Do experimental concepts turn a thriller into a Sci Fi?

[Charles]

Is a novel that uses a concept that is in its experimental stages considered Science Fiction? Since my novel, “The True Virus”, which takes place during the last Gaza/Israeli war and involves the CIA, Mossad and Hamas terrorists with lots of action, I feel this puts it into the thriller genre. However, the plot revolves around a Hamas bioterrorist hacking into the DNA component of the CIA computer, resulting in a real live virus which causes an epidemic.
Scientists have experimented with DNA based computers and have had some success. Also, as a microbiologist, I know that a virus is nothing more than a DNA molecule surrounded by a protein coat. Therefore, is my novel a thriller or science fiction?
For more information about me and this novel check my website:
http://chvrooman.wix.com/thrillers

[Michele]

Sounds like a thriller to me - Michael Crichton and others who have written about similar outbreaks, pandemics, bio weapons are generally found in the fiction/thriller section.
Unless it is set in the future, a world unlike our own, or the virus is released by a suddenly self-aware AI computer, I think you're squarely in the thriller zone.