Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Language of dna

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The result of the debate was delete. —Xezbeth 08:15, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Language of dna

Original research. Much of the article is from this webpage, which doesn't seem to be particularly neutral or research-based. Joyous 05:48, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

  • It also seems to be based heavily on this press release, which is trying to sell a vaguely-defined product from this company. Delete as original research. --TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 06:15, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. -- Toytoy 07:14, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete; original research/nonsense. See [1] which gives a paper in the Journal of Theoretical Biology which would be a better starting point for such an article. Dunc|☺ 19:53, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • I'll give you the abstract: DNA sequences usually involve local construction rules that affect different scales. As such their may not follow Zipf's law (a power law) which is followed in every natural language. Indeed, analysis of many DNA sequences suggests that no linguistics connections to DNA exist and that even though it has structure DNA is not a language, Computer simulations and a biological approach to this problem further support these results. [2] Dunc|☺ 20:08, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, unless changed into a discussion of studies into its non linguistic nature. ~~~~ 22:39, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete as an original research copyvio. Shouldn't we blank the page and throw up the copyvio tag? func(talk) 19:58, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Nonsense - unencyclopedic language. --Ian Pitchford 14:35, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, nonsense. --nixie 04:11, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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