Bases are not letters: On the Analogy between the Genetic Code and Natural Language by Sequence Analysis
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-019-09353-z" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-019-09353-z</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12304-019-09353-z" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12304-019-09353-z</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Bases are not letters: On the Analogy between the Genetic Code and Natural Language by Sequence Analysis
Original language description
The article deals with the notion of the genetic code and its metaphorical understanding as a “language”. In the traditional view of the language metaphor of the genetic code, combinations of nucleotides are signs of amino acids (see the table of the genetic code). Similarly, words combined from letters (speech sounds) represent certain meanings. The language metaphor of the genetic code (Markoš and Faltýnek, Biosemiotics 4(2), 171–200, 2011) assumes that the nucleotides stay in the analogy to letters, triples to words and genes to sentences (Jakobson 1971). We propose an application of mathematical linguistic methods on the notion of the genetic code. We provide quantitative analysis (n-gram structure, Zipf’s law) of mRNA strings and natural language texts. This analysis is sensitive to the detection of the code (language) units hierarchy. We also take into consideration a representative quantitative analysis of DNA, RNA and proteins. Our analysis of mRNA confirms an assumption that the design of the genetic code cannot analogize DNA bases and letters. The notion of the letter is much more appropriate if analogized with triplets or amino acids (see Lacková et al, Theory in Biosciences 136(3–4), 187–191, 2017).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
O - Projekt operacniho programu
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Biosemiotics
ISSN
1875-1342
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
289-304
UT code for WoS article
000483695600006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85071573212