>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Jones <mbzcaj at unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> writes:
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Chris> What he meant was that proteins were built up out of
Chris> functional domains (words) to build active proteins (sentences).
I sat a paper in mathematical linguistics in 1994 at Auckland university,
New Zealand. It was taken by Professor Solomon Marcus, a Rumanian semiotician
of some repute.
In the course of this paper, one of the topics which he discussed was
just as you describe. I have no references or anything, but I hope this
might be of some help.
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