Deoxyribonuclolic Acid

The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with those of a computer engineering journal.

— Richard Dawkins

It is this instability that is life, since it is forever changing its position in an effort to maintain its identity - in the manner of a long rod balanced on an acrobat's nose.

— Isaac Asmiov

 MERE  ATGGAGAGGGAATAG
  CAT  ATGTATCGCTGCTACACGTAAGCA
   IN  ATGTATCGTTACATCAACTAGATGGTTCGAGTTTAA
SPACE  ATGTATAGGTCCCCATATTAGATGCATCGTATGACAAGGGCGTGTACATAGGAGTAG
  ???  ATGATAAGAATGCAGCGTATGAACCGGCAGTAAGTTGAAACGTAGTGCGCTACATCCTAG