Il genoma come testo in attesa di decifrazione
Bollettino della Unione matematica italiana, Série 8, 7A (2004) no. 2, pp. 237-247
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Within every single cell of our body is present a huge DNA molecule carrying our genome, that is the set of biological instructions to form and keep alive a human being. These instructions take the form of a sequence of three billions characters, termed nucleotides, selected from a very limited alphabet, comprising only four letters: A, G, C and T. It is a linear, oriented sequence, that is a text. To read and understand this text is a fundamental task for the future years. Fortunately for us, the text of the genome can be mentally subdivided in a number of self-contained chapters we call genes. Every gene carries the information to form a specific protein, but at the moment we are in a position to decipher only 3% of them. It is by no means clear what we can do in order to understand the remaining 97% of our genome. Here, I illustrate the problem and put forward a number of suggestions.
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Boncinelli, Edoardo. Il genoma come testo in attesa di decifrazione. Bollettino della Unione matematica italiana, Série 8, 7A (2004) no. 2, pp. 237-247. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/BUMI_2004_8_7A_2_a2/