Tag Archives: genetic code

The “Wow! signal” of the terrestrial genetic code

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Artem Novozhilov

An interesting paper appeared recently in Icarus journal. The paper by Vladimir I. shCherbak and Maxim A. Makukov analyzes some numerical patterns in the standard genetic code.  The text can be also found on arXiv.org. This paper spurred some (sometimes heated) discussions on the … Continue reading →

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The Logic of Chance by Eugene Koonin

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Artem Novozhilov

The Logic of Chance by Eugene Koonin now can be  found on any internet site selling books (and on many other sites as well). This book gives a synthetic (albeit quite personal) view of the modern evolutionary biology. A significant part of the book … Continue reading →

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Number 20 and Carl Woese

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Artem Novozhilov

I am quite confident that I saw a citation from Carl Woese who stated (as far as I can remember)  that it was a great pity that there were exactly 20 amino acids in the standard genetic code. The reason … Continue reading →

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