10. Digital Genetics is born

4/19/2013. Mediterranean sea, near coast of Spain.

"Digital Genetics" is a preliminary name for a new scientific discipline that would use Digital/Informational Technology methods and approaches, IT way of thinking, to explore genetic tasks from informational point of view.

Discovered SumMatrix patterns in genomes are to be explained. Biological sense of the patterns need to be found. This may lead to re-classification of the living species by the patterns.

Genomic entities, like chromosome, gene, junk DNA, mRNA join, etc., need to be defined digitally. Tools for digital search of genes (at least) should be created.

SumMatrix analysis is needed for
- comparison genomes of different species
- comparison chromosomes of one genome
- comparison of different iterations of a DNA/RNA sequencing
- adding / subtracting, say, virus or multiple viruses genomes to another ones
- many more, I even can't imagine right now

The ultimate goal is to define the instruction set and architecture of the biological processor which we call "life".


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The immediate things that could be done right now are

- creating tools for re-digitazing genetic databases into hex format
- creating tools for calculating SumMatrix and its normalization
- creating tools for SumMatrix comparison and presentation the result of the difference
- creating tools for analysing SumMatrix by patterns
- classify SumMatrix patterns, try to find how many patterns exit
- create centralized online resource for communications, coordination of actions and presenting the results of reseaches
- re-think genetic code table of amino acid production, probably re-classify the resulting proteomes
and many more...

From us, software/IT professionals to them, genetics and biologists:

Let us help you to help all of us.


April 22, 2013. Barcelona