Haven't read everything, but found an article which looks funny if you're a geek like me.
Some quotes:

Quote:You can think of proteins a bit like pixels in a frame buffer. A complete protein is like an image on the screen; each amino acid on a protein is like a pixel; each pixel has a depth of 6 bits (3 to 1 mapping of a medium that stores 2 bits per base pair); and each pixel has to go through a color palette (the codon translation table) to transform the raw data into a final rendered color.

To ground this in a specific example, six bits stored as “ATG” on your hard drive (DNA) is loaded into RAM (RNA) as “AUG” (remember the T»U transcription). When the RNA program in RAM is executed, “AUG” is translated to a pixel (amino acid) of color “M”

Quote:So it takes about 25 kilobits — 3.2 kbytes — of data to code for a virus that has a non-trivial chance of killing a human. This is more efficient than a computer virus, such as MyDoom, which rings in at around 22 kbytes.

It’s humbling that I could be killed by 3.2kbytes of genetic data. Then again, with 850 Mbytes of data in my genome, there’s bound to be an exploit or two.

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=353

(This post was last modified: 04/09/2009 09:26 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)

850 Mbytes of data in my genome>? lol
a faster virus is more dangerous>?