| Literature DB >> 11226609 |
C J Howe1, A C Barbrook, M Spencer, P Robinson, B Bordalejo, L R Mooney.
Abstract
Frequently, letters, words and sentences are used in undergraduate textbooks and the popular press as an analogy for the coding, transfer and corruption of information in DNA. We discuss here how the converse can be exploited, by using programs designed for biological analysis of sequence evolution to uncover the relationships between different manuscript versions of a text. We point out similarities between the evolution of DNA and the evolution of texts.Mesh:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11226609 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-9525(00)02210-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Genet ISSN: 0168-9525 Impact factor: 11.639