Deciphering the Language of the Genome

✍ Scribed by John W. Bodnar; Jeffrey Killian; Michael Nagle; Suneil Ramchandani

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 294 KB
• Volume: 189
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5193
• DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1997.0507

✦ Synopsis

The non-coding DNA in eukaryotic genomes encodes a language which programs organismal growth and development. We show that a linguistic and cryptographic approach can be used to deduce the syntax of this programming language for gene regulation and to compile a dictionary of enhancers which form its words.