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Re:ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Donations Lead to Significant Ge... by fleitz on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @03:47PM (#12175941)
Yeah I've always thought of genes as like dynamic code, it's hard to tell what's going on until you run it
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Re:ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Donations Lead to Significant Ge... by tkinom on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @04:48PM (#12176413)
I used to work for company that make DNA sequencer machine as embedded SW dev ~20 years ago.

I think the genes is more like static code. One can clone it easily. RNA is like the stack, RSS, Register states - expression of the genes.

DNA is like a class, RNA is the object that is instantiation of the class.

BTW, the double helix structure is very much like full unit test coverage for the bio-programming.

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