A number theoretical observation about the degeneracy of the genetic code

DOI10.1134/S0081543809020126MaRDI QIDQ1048423zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marcus Nilsson, Andrei Khrennikov

Publication date 12 January 2010

Published in Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0612022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biochemistry, molecular biology (92C40) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Neural networks for/in biological studies, artificial life and related topics (92B20) Relations with coding theory (11H71)

Abstract: We discuss the similarity of the degeneration structure of the genetic code with a pure number theoretic -- ``divisors code. The most interesting thing about our observation is not that there is a connection between number theory and the genetic code, but the simplicity of the rule. We hope that the observation and the naive model presented in this paper will serve for ideas to other models of the degeneracy of the genetic code. Maybe, the ideas of this article can also be used in the area of artificial life to syntesize artificial genetic codes.

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