title: Life is translation.
abstract: Evolutionary origin of translation represents one of the key questions that Carl Woese addressed in his work. Here we give a personal account of his results in this area and the effect they have had on the field.
authors.affiliation: Department of Structural and Computational Biology; Max F. Perutz Laboratories; University of Vienna; Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Bojan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zagrovic
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D005815:Genetic Code; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger
keywords: Carl Woese; complementarity; genetic code; stereochemical hypothesis; translation