Systematics of the Genetic Code and Anticode: History, Supersymmetry, Degeneracy and Periodicity

Abstract

Important aspects of the process of information storage and retrieval in DNA and RNA, and its evolution, are the role of the anticodons and associated $t$RNA's, and correlations between anticodons and amino acids; the degeneracy of the genetic code, and the periodicity of many amino acid physico-chemical properties. Such factors are analysed in the context of a $sl(6/1)$ supersymmetric model of the genetic code.

4 pages LaTex, uses icmp.sty, 2 figures, Contribution to proceedings of oXXII International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (Group22) Hobart, 13-17 July 1998, to be published by International Press