Thursday, September 3, 2009

RNA = RAM

Aaron noticed this blog. It is oversimplified, but a great comparison of genetics concepts to computational ones. I thought it would give us something to contemplate at the end of the month.

1 comment:

Trevor Bača said...

The counts in the post are worth pointing out:

"So it takes about 25 kilobits — 3.2 kbytes — of data to code for a virus that has a non-trivial chance of killing a human. This is more efficient than a computer virus, such as MyDoom, which rings in at around 22 kbytes.

It’s humbling that I could be killed by 3.2kbytes of genetic data. Then again, with 850 Mbytes of data in my genome, there’s bound to be an exploit or two."