The digital code of DNA

@article{Hood2003TheDC,
  title={The digital code of DNA},
  author={Leroy E. Hood and David J. Galas},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2003},
  volume={421},
  pages={444-448}
}
The discovery of the structure of DNA transformed biology profoundly, catalysing the sequencing of the human genome and engendering a new view of biology as an information science. Two features of DNA structure account for much of its remarkable impact on science: its digital nature and its complementarity, whereby one strand of the helix binds perfectly with its partner. DNA has two types of digital information — the genes that encode proteins, which are the molecular machines of life, and the… 
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