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<blockquote data-quote="Hans Blaster" data-source="post: 76247217" data-attributes="member: 396028"><p>Yep, that's how software is hierarchical. One routine calls another by making choices (logical expressions) with inputs, etc., etc., etc.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Now you veering dangerously close to the "I make web pages, therefore I program" fallacy. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> But I digress...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Except gene regulation and expression use various chemicals. They require a molecule of a particular type (say some sort of regulator component) to attach to something that allows or stops something from happening. </p><p></p><p>Computer programs don't work that way. I don't press a button that makes a bunch of mini "post reply" programs that float about in memory until they find an open "post-reply" receptor on the web page "gene" and then it activates the function and my post is posted. Instead there is an active program monitoring my mouse being run by the program scheduler. When it detects my mouse click it transmits a message to the window manager that determines it was over the "Post Reply" button in this web page and sends a signal to the browser to activate that code and the the web page activates the code that sends my post to the CF server.</p><p></p><p>I don't think the "program" metaphor works relative to DNA and cells.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is a very different kind of "code", and encoding in this case of a protein sequence. It is a much closer analogy to coding in computers than the program "code" and I think generally apt. It is similar to...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I remember the day when you only needed 7-bits to encode keyboard output...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hans Blaster, post: 76247217, member: 396028"] Yep, that's how software is hierarchical. One routine calls another by making choices (logical expressions) with inputs, etc., etc., etc. Now you veering dangerously close to the "I make web pages, therefore I program" fallacy. :) But I digress... Except gene regulation and expression use various chemicals. They require a molecule of a particular type (say some sort of regulator component) to attach to something that allows or stops something from happening. Computer programs don't work that way. I don't press a button that makes a bunch of mini "post reply" programs that float about in memory until they find an open "post-reply" receptor on the web page "gene" and then it activates the function and my post is posted. Instead there is an active program monitoring my mouse being run by the program scheduler. When it detects my mouse click it transmits a message to the window manager that determines it was over the "Post Reply" button in this web page and sends a signal to the browser to activate that code and the the web page activates the code that sends my post to the CF server. I don't think the "program" metaphor works relative to DNA and cells. This is a very different kind of "code", and encoding in this case of a protein sequence. It is a much closer analogy to coding in computers than the program "code" and I think generally apt. It is similar to... I remember the day when you only needed 7-bits to encode keyboard output... [/QUOTE]
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