tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29091041.post421156756896587386..comments2023-08-20T06:07:00.883-07:00Comments on Lysine Rich: Genetics, Epigenetics, and LifeElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03838351800414878044noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29091041.post-64203445966645198052007-10-25T22:43:00.000-07:002007-10-25T22:43:00.000-07:00This gets into a part of genetics I have always fo...This gets into a part of genetics I have always found interesting, something lacking in the "classical" discussion (high school?) discussion of genes. That is, the feedback and control system that makes genes a viable system to chemically encode the information in our bodies. Control systems can display incredible complication, even with a few simple rules defining the system's response. The other nice view that is afforded by viewing genetics as a control system is the possibility for response to external input and noise. Not everything is legislated a priori, running from a preset program like a simple algorithm, but is a system of feedback and stabilization coping with constant external perturbations. I have begun to suspect that electrical engineering and biology will begin to share more intellectual territory as time progresses. Indeed, biological systems represent perhaps the greatest control systems ever.Duffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06494648113157850242noreply@blogger.com