The Open Physical Chemistry Journal

2008, 2 : 1-5
Published online 2008 January 25. DOI: 10.2174/1874067700802010001
Publisher ID: TOPCJ-2-1

The Genetic Code via Gödel Encoding

T. Négadi
Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Oran University, 31100, Es-Sénia, Oran, Algeria.

ABSTRACT

The genetic code structure into distinct multiplet-classes as well as the numeric degeneracies of the latter are revealed by a two-step process. First, an empirical inventory of the degeneracies (of the shuffled multiplets) in two specific equal moieties of the experimental genetic code table is made and transcribed in the form of a sequence of integers. Second, a Gödel Encoding procedure is applied to the latter sequence delivering, as an output, a Gödel Number the digits of which, from the decimal representation, could remarkably describe the amino acids and the stops and allow us also to compute the exact degeneracies, class by class. The standard and the vertebrate mitochondrial genetic codes are considered and their multiplet structure is fully established.