> There actually is, the information retrieval mechanism that is used to 'express' the DNA (actually, the RNA, an 'unzipped' strand of DNA, but who's counting) is a wonderful little nano machine called a ribosome, it's probably the most amazing structure that I know of outside of the DNA itself.

Actually I was going to say that one way to think of using that information is to compute with it, in other words, an organism is simply the result of a computation on its DNA.