From Jabberwocky to genome: Lewis Carroll and computational biology.
In addition to his literary output, Lewis Carroll created a vast range of games and puzzles that depend upon wordplay of various kinds, especially the manipulation of alphabetic symbols in diverse contexts. Such wordplay reveals a turn of mind well suited to methodologies used in modern computational biology.
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Bioinformatics Department, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, King of Prussia, PA 19406, USA. David_B_Searls@sbphrd.com
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