Comments on: Pythonic Evolution – Part 2 http://forthescience.org/blog/2009/05/23/pythonic-evolution-part-2/ A blog about science and programming Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:01:18 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Stefano http://forthescience.org/blog/2009/05/23/pythonic-evolution-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-6132 Stefano Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:24:32 +0000 http://forthescience.org/blog/?p=95#comment-6132 You have a point on this. The reason is that this article has been written a loong time ago, and I used the term "opcode", which is a well suited term. Now it's too late to change, but you can still assume that the operand is an additional metabolite or cofactor (for example, many proteins need a metal ion to work, and they work with reduced efficiency or not at all with a different ion). You have a point on this. The reason is that this article has been written a loong time ago, and I used the term “opcode”, which is a well suited term. Now it’s too late to change, but you can still assume that the operand is an additional metabolite or cofactor (for example, many proteins need a metal ion to work, and they work with reduced efficiency or not at all with a different ion).

]]> By: Simone Piunno http://forthescience.org/blog/2009/05/23/pythonic-evolution-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-6018 Simone Piunno Sun, 31 May 2009 18:02:06 +0000 http://forthescience.org/blog/?p=95#comment-6018 Cool article! You make a good job but I think your formalism is imperfect. You say your creatures are made out of 10 codons but to me they look like 37 because "IncA 1" and "IncA 2" are two different basic operations and you have 10 possible IncA (-5 to +5). For the same reason you have 10 possible codons of BranchXZero and 10 possible codons of BranchXNotZero. If this were not the case how are you going to store this operand in the DNA? Cool article! You make a good job but I think your formalism is imperfect.
You say your creatures are made out of 10 codons but to me they look like 37 because “IncA 1″ and “IncA 2″ are two different basic operations and you have 10 possible IncA (-5 to +5). For the same reason you have 10 possible codons of BranchXZero and 10 possible codons of BranchXNotZero.
If this were not the case how are you going to store this operand in the DNA?

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