Biotech as an information system
Sep 17th, 2007 by Ivo | 
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The race toward the digitalization of reality has never slowed down, and it has resulted in a perception of the universe as an information processing system. The digitalization of reality has spread to the biological system and has been accelerated with the DNA sequencing of Human Genome Project.
Then scientists discovered that RNA, previously considered junk, regulates protein production and regulates genetic expression. Sequencing RNA and the classification of proteins will probably require billions of times the computational power needed for the Human Genome Project in 2005.
Biology and physics can express themselves on an informational level as well, but this doesn't mean that this is the only level where we can understand their nature.
