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Dichotomy in the definition of prescriptive information suggests both prescribed data and prescribed algorithms: biosemiotics applications in genomic systems

Overview of attention for article published in Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, March 2012
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Title
Dichotomy in the definition of prescriptive information suggests both prescribed data and prescribed algorithms: biosemiotics applications in genomic systems
Published in
Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, March 2012
DOI 10.1186/1742-4682-9-8
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Authors

David J D'Onofrio, David L Abel, Donald E Johnson

Abstract

The fields of molecular biology and computer science have cooperated over recent years to create a synergy between the cybernetic and biosemiotic relationship found in cellular genomics to that of information and language found in computational systems. Biological information frequently manifests its "meaning" through instruction or actual production of formal bio-function. Such information is called prescriptive information (PI). PI programs organize and execute a prescribed set of choices. Closer examination of this term in cellular systems has led to a dichotomy in its definition suggesting both prescribed data and prescribed algorithms are constituents of PI. This paper looks at this dichotomy as expressed in both the genetic code and in the central dogma of protein synthesis. An example of a genetic algorithm is modeled after the ribosome, and an examination of the protein synthesis process is used to differentiate PI data from PI algorithms.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 8%
United States 1 8%
Unknown 10 83%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 25%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 8%
Librarian 1 8%
Lecturer 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Unknown 3 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 17%
Philosophy 1 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 8%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 8%
Other 2 17%
Unknown 3 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 February 2020.
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#2,355,187
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#2
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