From: YP Fun (ypprotection@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 21:54:52 MDT
-- Emlyn O'regan <oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au>
wrote:
> >
--- Emlyn O'regan
> <oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au>
> > wrote:
> > > That's not the db, it's the install disk
>
I was thinking about this last night and I thought
that building software is not a good metaphor
for protein synthesis.
1. Download binary/Compile Source Code
2. Copy binaries to appropriate system location
3. Register binaries and required libraries in
system
4. Run Executable
Where as steps to building a protein are
1. Replication
2. Transcription
3. Translation
Although DNA could be thought of as the "source
code" for protein synthesis.
In which case you would have
0,1,operators == aminoacids,structure
source code aka programing constructs == DNA
compiler/intepreter == protein synthesis
but the rest is not applicable. In software
execution is the most significant step where
as in protein systhesis generating the protein
is the most significant step.
A better metaphor is tha DNA is the blueprint of
the human body.
>
> That's not really true. There is no mechanism in
> DNA, just like there isn't
> in software. But, the DNA is executed (almost like a
> turing machine!), with
I am not sure that that is true. DNA encodes each
amino
acid and the placement of each amino acid with some
information
regarding the physical proximity between amino acids.
There is also some weird binding of proteins that can
increase
or decrease the synthesis of certain other proteins.
> little greeblies crawling along it and turning it's
> instructions into
> proteins and whatnot.
>
> If the program isn't in the DNA, where is it?
>
see above. The problem is that software programs
are all about execution and DNA is all about protein
systhesis. If the "compiler and intepreter for
software" is equivalent to the "cell", than the
human body is some combination of tailered
compilers, interpreters and executables which
are never run??
huh?
YP
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