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From the bionet.info-theory newsgroup, eddy@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Sean
Eddy) writes in article <eddy.725706161@beagle>:

>Alberts (_Molecular Biology of the Cell_, p. 412) cites 2 x 10^8 
>nt/min as the average interphase total transcription rate per 
>mammalian cell.  40% of that is tRNA/rRNA transcription; so call it 
>1x10^8 nt/min for precursor mRNA transcription. 
 
>Now you need a number for how much precursor is spliced out before 
>export from the nucleus; I think a reasonable guess in the human 
>might be 95%. 
 
>Call each nucleotide 2 bits of information, and you get a "data 
>transmission rate" on the order of 200 kilo(bytes)/sec -- so it's 
>closer to Ethernet than an obsolete modem :) 

I did say 300-1200 baud was a GUESS.


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