The real players in the action of life are the proteins. ..… - Denis Noble

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The real players in the action of life are the proteins. ...DNA is in comparison rather passive.

Denis Noble

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CBE FRS FMedSci MAE (born 16 November 1936) is a British biologist who held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of at the University of Oxford from 1984 to 2004 and was appointed Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational Physiology. He is one of the pioneers of and developed the first viable mathematical model of the working heart in 1960.

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[T]here is no complete programme in our DNA. Programmes... are distributed across scales in the organism.

The DNA causes the proteins, the proteins cause the cells, and so on. ...[T]he inside story, is that the information coded in the genes is being expressed. In biologist-speak, the is 'created by' the . The story is seductive.

[T]he book of life is life itself. It cannot be reduced to just one of its databases. ...[T]he genome is only one of its databases. Function... depends also on... properties... not specified by genes.

The real players in the action of life are the proteins. ...DNA is in comparison rather passive. - Denis Noble

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