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Article #2619Re: MRNA
From: Jonathan Dale
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 07:31
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 07:31
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In article <Bzy7Fz.M38@iat.holonet.net> ken@iat.holonet.net (Ken Easlon) writes: > >Question, does anyone have any thoughts/references about the idea of >viewing the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell as sort of a computer CPU, with >DNA playing the part of read only memory? > >-- >Ken Easlon | "...somebody spoke and I went into a dream..." >ken@holonet.net | -Paul McCartney >Pleasantly Unaffiliated | (Lots deleted from your post) Well, Douglas Hosfstadter constructs an analogy between DNA and formalized number theory (which can be thought of perhaps as being related to computers) but that may be a bit far for you to go.... I enjoyed reading it, though, so I thought I'd bring the book up (_Godel, Escher, Bach:an Eternal Golden Braid_). Anyway, I would bet you'll find the bandwidth is pretty high, but I'd be curious about the resulting number.
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