Re:DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
by Kim_Bruning on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @02:33PM
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I don't think "coding" is an analogy. It's pretty clear that DNA is a kind of code. It's also fairly obviously Turing complete. It's rather more than Turing complete in fact. It encodes for life, after all!
I think it does make sense to deal with DNA from an information science perspective. It might not be sufficient, there might be higher levels of emergence to be taken into account.
But I think that without having a bit of an understanding of information science, it's really really hard to understand anything about how DNA works at all.
That said, the article actually seems to be pretty good starting point for programmers who want to get an initial intro to molecular genetics, and the author doesn't take themself TOO seriously.
I think it does make sense to deal with DNA from an information science perspective. It might not be sufficient, there might be higher levels of emergence to be taken into account.
But I think that without having a bit of an understanding of information science, it's really really hard to understand anything about how DNA works at all.
That said, the article actually seems to be pretty good starting point for programmers who want to get an initial intro to molecular genetics, and the author doesn't take themself TOO seriously.