by Antoine Danchin La génétique, et désormais la génomique, envahissent la Une de journaux de papier, et jusqu’au journal télévisé lui-même. Mais sait-on réellement ce que cela signifie, ce qu’est la génétique des génomes ? On sait (mais sait-on vraiment ?) ce que sont les gènes. Ce sont ces objets abstraits sous-jacents à la transmission …
I really liked this article, especially: In the middle, between DNA read-in and DNA read-out, is a computing layer that’s seen enormous growth in the availability of useful data. Databases like KEGG, for metabolic pathways, and Genbank, for genetic sequences, codify biological processes in machine terms. Software can instantaneously run through millions of permutations before suggesting a …
“One describes how proteins are made, and the other instructs the cell on how genes are controlled. One language is written on top of the other, which is why the second language remained hidden for so long.” “The genetic code uses a 64-letter alphabet called codons. The UW team discovered that some codons, which they …