For a recent book / set of papers on the topic of understanding biological information, I can recommend having a look at the BINP book: http://www.binp.org http

For a recent book / set of papers on the topic of understanding biological information, I can recommend having a look at the BINP book: http://www.binp.org http://www.binp.org (Biological Information, New Perspectives). It is a collection of papers from a symposium on the topic at Cornell University.