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Re: MRNA

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From: Christopher Ian Connolly
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:08
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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?

I forget the specific reference, and I only looked at the abstract
(didn't try to read the paper) but there was at least one article in
the Journal of Theoretical Biology in the past year or two which
attempted to describe ribosomal action in terms of a deterministic
pushdown automaton.

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