A Defense of Syntax-Based Gene Concepts in Postgenomics: Genes as Modular Subroutines in the Master Genomic Program.

The purpose of this article is to update and defend syntax-based (conserved DNA-sequence motifs) gene concepts. I show how syntax-based concepts have been and can be extended to accommodate complex cases of genome expression, regulation, and processing. In response to difficult cases and causal pari...

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Publicado en:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 78; no. 5; pp. 712 - 724
Autor principal:	Baetu, Tudor M.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Cambridge University Press Dec2011
Materias:	Genomics Syntax (Grammar) Nucleotide sequence Philosophy of biology Gene expression Genetic regulation Phenotypes
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