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  2. From: connolly@rabbit.cs.umass.edu (Christopher Ian Connolly)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.bio
  4. Subject: Re: MRNA
  5. Message-ID: <58055@dime.cs.umass.edu>
  6. Date: 28 Dec 92 23:08:00 GMT
  7. References: <BzsBw2.HF7@iat.holonet.net> <Bzy7Fz.M38@iat.holonet.net>
  8. Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu
  9. Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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  12. In article <Bzy7Fz.M38@iat.holonet.net> ken@iat.holonet.net (Ken Easlon) writes:
  13. >Question, does anyone have any thoughts/references about the idea of
  14. >viewing the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell as sort of a computer CPU, with
  15. >DNA playing the part of read only memory?
  16.  
  17. I forget the specific reference, and I only looked at the abstract
  18. (didn't try to read the paper) but there was at least one article in
  19. the Journal of Theoretical Biology in the past year or two which
  20. attempted to describe ribosomal action in terms of a deterministic
  21. pushdown automaton.
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  25. Christopher Ian Connolly            connolly@cs.umass.edu
  26. Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics        wa2ifi
  27. University of Massachusetts at Amherst        Amherst, MA 01003
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