The Digram I Ching Genetic Code Compresses the Genetic Code into 24 Compatible Main Codons

Fernando Castro-Chavez

doi:10.26717/bjstr.2019.20.003413

Abstract

When using a compacted version of the "I Ching" genetic code, the number of symbols is reduced to only 8 symbolic binary constants, integrated by only three symbols, being each: either the continuous or the broken horizontal line, plus the respective one word abbreviations of their resulting amino acids, namely, between four to eight accompanying the triad of lines, giving a total set of 46 possible combinations. This study is an alternate way of file compression for the genetic code, focused in the nucleotides, while another one I explored elsewhere, was focused in the groupings of amino acids, both individually and by their codon equivalents. As an Appendix 1 & 2 analogy, I add an example of "mutations" in literature, based on two early versions of "The Fair" (in its first edition of 1963, and in its first red edition of 1971), comparing its vignettes, and written in Spanish by my professor Juan José Arreola, now at his 101 year of birth.

Highlights

We have seen the properties of the genetic code behaving as a computational program in the defragging [1] and the file compression [2]
Our aim here is to expand this last concept by compressing the genetic code from the point of view of the codons and not as we did before, that was by taking into account the compatibility between amino acids, for that purpose, once more as before we will use the “I Ching” as our tool for research, with which we were able to diminish the code by resting from it 40 of its codons
The resulting graphic is as follows: These are 24 common symbols (= 384/16= 24, such as the hours of the day, twice the months of the year)

Summary

Introduction

We have seen the properties of the genetic code behaving as a computational program in the defragging [1] and the file compression [2]. Our aim here is to expand this last concept by compressing the genetic code from the point of view of the codons and not as we did before, that was by taking into account the compatibility between amino acids, for that purpose, once more as before we will use the “I Ching” as our tool for research, with which we were able to diminish the code by resting from it 40 of its codons. The advantages of this approach are that for educational purposes the students are able to see once more the enormous plasticity of the genetic code in its way to represent it, evocative as we have said before, of the same, almost limitless exchangeability in nature of all the living organisms that depend on it, but always within a clear and present natural boundary of which they are unable to jump [3], these results will be able to help on the architecture of biological software aimed at the study and comparison of extremely long sequences

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