DNA seen through the eyes of a coder (2017)

As someone building software to design genetic tools, this is actually a pretty good overview. It's analogies are pretty solid, even if they are just analogies. It's a well-described snapshot of the early phase of education where this helps build a grand intuition and relations between disciplines. Just be careful to remember that they're just analogies, and in general can't be relied on to actually discover, invent, design or conclude. The fun part for everyone here is that the science…

Biology is completely different from Computer Science and metaphors between the fields build no understanding and can only be misleading, every time I hear someone comparing DNA to a computer program I fall into pieces. I recommend "Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists" instead for those willing to learn some actual biology: http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~craven/hunter.pdf I think it's the first chapter of this book: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/processes-life I once considered going into bioinformatics, and…

If DNA came about as a product of chance, would it be possible to create a computer coding language through some sort of electronic evolution/iteration system?

As a coder this is a fascinating read, but since this is the internet I am dying to hear from more educated readers on how close to reality it is.(that is why I hang around here) any takers?