Towards a biological coding theory discipline.
How can information required for the proper functioning of a cell, an organism, or a species be transmitted in an error-introducing environment? Clearly, similar to engineering communication systems, biological systems must incorporate error control in their information transmissino processes. if genetic information in the DNA sequence is encoded in a manner similar to error control encoding, the received sequence, the messenger RNA (mRNA) can be analyzed using coding theory principles. This work explores potential parallels between engineering communication systems and the central dogma of genetics and presents a coding theory approach to modeling the process of protein translation initiation. The messenger RNA is viewed as a noisy encoded sequence and the ribosoe as an error control decoder. Decoding models based on chemical and biological characteristics of the ribosome and the ribosome binding site of the mRNA are developed and results of applying the models to the Escherichia coli K-12 are presented.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 1005409
- Report Number(s):
- SAND2003-3405J; TRN: US201105%%317
- Journal Information:
- Proposed for publication in New Thesis., Vol. 1, Issue 1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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