RE: Phonosemantics and parallels in the genome (and elsewhere)

From: Gatherer, D. (Derek) (D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 08:24:02 GMT

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From: "Gatherer, D. (Derek)" <D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl>
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Subject: RE: Phonosemantics and parallels in the genome (and elsewhere)
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:24:02 +0100
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    Let's try this another way:

    There are 24 ways to order the 4 nucleotides:

    ACGT CAGT GCAT TCGA
    AGCT CGAT GACT TGCA
    ATCG CTAG GTCA TACG
    ATGC CTGA GTAC TAGC
    AGTC CGTA GCTA TCAG
    ACTG CATG GATC TGAC

    So there are 24 homo-orderings of the cube - by homo-orderings I mean that
    the 3 axes all have the _same_ order.

    But how many hetero-orderings? We could have complete heter-orderings, with
    each axis having a different order, or a partial hetero-ordering, with 2
    axes having the same order and a third having another order.

    If each ordering is considered a symbol (number each 1 to 24 or give each a
    unique character in a 24-letter alphabet), then this is equivalent to asking
    how many 3-character words we can get from a 24-letter alphabet. So the
    answer is: 13824 possible codon-amino acid cubes.

    So can you remember, Jess, which of those 13824 cubes was the one that gave
    you your result? If you can, and the cube really has the properties you
    describe then you possibly could publish it in Bioinformatics, J.Comp Biol,
    Nucleic Acids Research, or a similar journal. If you can't remember which
    one, I'm going to have to write a program to render each cube in
    Spotfire.......

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