By: Ian Sample
Nicely done sir! Your piece reminded me of a classic paper from Phil Anderson. Worth a read, still. http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789812385123_others01
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Expanding on Hunter’s statements: If you take the view of computational biology, that the system of proteins, DNA and so on represents code and the processors which run that code, then you have a...
View ArticleBy: Guy Plunkett III
On a lighter note, I am reminded of Dr. Margo Green’s Genetic Sequence Extrapolator “a computer program designed to describe the characteristics of a given species from a reading of its DNA … you can...
View ArticleBy: Brian Too
In principle, yes. In practice, this could take a couple of centuries. Patience, Grasshopper.
View ArticleBy: SteveW
The problem with the physics analogy is that physics works best for predicting properties of a single entity: the location of a ball moving at a certain velocity, say, is governed by a single equation....
View ArticleBy: Nathan Myers
So far as we have any experience, chicken DNA only results in a chicken if it’s grown in chicken cells. Similarly, elephants have only arisen from DNA that was contained entirely within elephant cells....
View ArticleBy: James Sweet
I was going to say something similar to Nathan Meyers… Let’s say that practicality is an issue. Could you even in principle predict an animal from the DNA alone? Quite possibly not, because you have a...
View ArticleBy: Paul Knoepfler
What about the epigenome, which is basically the master of the genome? Cells literally do not know what to do with DNA without histones (which come in probably thousands of post-translationally...
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The answer is no. Because not all the information needed to define a lifeform is contained within its genome. The initial conditions in which the genome finds itself, the intracellular environment,...
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