title: A book of life? How the genome became an information system and DNA a language.
authors.affiliation: Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA.
authors.forename: L E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Kay
mesh_terms: D005815:Genetic Code; D015894:Genome, Human; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D013598:Systems Theory