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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!cats.ucsc.edu!jdale
  2. From: jdale@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Dale)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.bio
  4. Subject: Re: MRNA
  5. Date: 28 Dec 1992 07:31:11 GMT
  6. Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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  8. Message-ID: <1hmafvINN937@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
  9. References: <BzsBw2.HF7@iat.holonet.net> <Bzy7Fz.M38@iat.holonet.net>
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  13. In article <Bzy7Fz.M38@iat.holonet.net> ken@iat.holonet.net (Ken Easlon) writes:
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  15. >Question, does anyone have any thoughts/references about the idea of
  16. >viewing the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell as sort of a computer CPU, with
  17. >DNA playing the part of read only memory?
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  19. >--
  20. >Ken Easlon                | "...somebody spoke and I went into a dream..."
  21. >ken@holonet.net           |    -Paul McCartney
  22. >Pleasantly Unaffiliated   |
  23.  
  24. (Lots deleted from your post)
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  26. Well, Douglas Hosfstadter constructs an analogy between DNA and formalized
  27. number theory (which can be thought of perhaps as being related to computers)
  28. but that may be a bit far for you to go....   I enjoyed reading it, though,
  29. so I thought I'd bring the book up (_Godel, Escher, Bach:an Eternal Golden
  30. Braid_).
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  32. Anyway, I would bet you'll find the bandwidth is pretty high, but I'd be
  33. curious about the resulting number.
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