Sunday, February 20, 2011

DNA seen through the eyes of a coder

This has been around a while, but I just found it. Explanation by a gentleman named Bert Hubert about the similarities between genetics and computer systems, with the analogy of DNA to source code as a focal point. A very cool read: DNA seen through the eyes of a coder. It seems to have been written 9 years ago (in 2002), and I'm no molecular biologist, but I think there have been some interesting advanced in epigenetics since then. I wonder how that fits into the analogy?

1 comment:

Victor Go said...

Hello Adam, I have a problem. I saw your solution here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/501943/can-the-jquery-ui-datepicker-be-made-to-disable-saturdays-and-sundays-and-holid

But I can't get it to work. I'm using datetimepicker

http://trentrichardson.com/examples/timepicker/

I used your code but it doesn't seem to work for holidays(weekened is working)

Sorry for barging in your blog.