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Can you elaborate - I’ve always been fascinated hearing CS interpretations of biological processes.

• kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
  DNA methylation acts as a form of error correction analogous to parity.
  • wjn0 7y ago
    If genes are the data, then methylation is more like an additional piece of metadata directing the cell (potentially different across cells) how to use the data. One possible use for this metadata is potentially error correction, but it does much more than that.
  • JohnBerea 7y ago
    And alternate splicing is a form of compression, where exons store the repetitive parts of genes only once, to be combined to make many proteins.