Abstract
Some things are more complex than others. We feel intuitively that highly complex things are associated with more information than less complex things. But this will not suffice for Homo bioinformaticus. Information and complexity must be measured. When this is done, amaziug “principles of order” emerge from large amounts of seemingly disparate data.
Keywords
Codon Position Encode Amino Acid Nucleic Acid Level Quadratic Parabola Complex Thing
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