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- Title
DNA Codes and Information: Formal Structures and Relational Causes.
- Authors
Richard Sternberg
- Abstract
Abstract  Recently the terms âcodesâ and âinformationâ as used in the context of molecular biology have been the subject of much discussion. Here I propose that a variety of structural realism can assist us in rethinking the concepts of DNA codes and information apart from semantic criteria. Using the genetic code as a theoretical backdrop, a necessary distinction is made between codes qua symbolic representations and information qua structure that accords with data. Structural attractors are also shown to be entailed by the mapping relation that any DNA code is a part of (as the domain). In this framework, these attractors are higher-order informational structures that obviate any âDNA-centricâ reductionism. In addition to the implications that are discussed, this approach validates the array of coding systems now recognized in molecular biology.
- Subjects
GENETIC code; MEDICAL informatics; MOLECULAR biology; NUCLEOTIDE sequence; DNA
- Publication
Acta Biotheoretica, 2008, Vol 56, Issue 3, p205
- ISSN
0001-5342
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10441-008-9049-6