Parity Code And DNA

jnana writes "There's an interesting article in Nature about error-correcting parity code in DNA. It seems that there are enzymes that check for even-parity nucleotides (according to a 0 and 1 assignment scheme in the article) and recognize odd-parity nucleotides as errors. The authors argue that this parity scheme is the reason that adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine became the building blocks of nucleotides instead of other types of purines and pyrimidines that must have coexisted with them."

Comments

In the Matrix...

[DJayC]

I'm starting to think more and more than life is a computer system. Perhaps we are all running in some ultimate program... Or even worse, what if we are just "running" in a crazy program thats not finished yet.. and some programmer is just getting his jollies seeing how far along his project is with an incomplete test-build... but that's another story :-P

Bottom line.. DNA error-checks.. we are in the Matrix.

I can't read it

[Gerry Gleason]

Well, I almost can. Apparently nature.com is one of those sites that think they know better than you what size the fonts should be. I have my font sizes set to 20 and the display resolution to 150 dpi, and I still get a font so tiny I can barely read it. I really don't need the additional eye strain. I'm using Mozilla on RH 7.3

Does anyone know any way see this in a readable font?

?? pulled

[tanveer1979]

This Story is not on slashdot front page!!! I got to it through the sidebar !! in the story it says previous story is gene map and next is KODAK, but on the front page there is no sotry between these 2 stories!! TAco theres a bug in slashdot!!