Wendell asks:

>I read some speculation that the encoding of information in the genes
>may involve some form of convolution, making the information more
>resistant to degredation.
>
>I'd like to follow up on this, but keyword searches for "genetic"
>along with "convolution", "coarse coding", and so
forth have come up
>dry.
>
>Can anyone give me a lead on this?

The word you want to include in your searches is "palindrome," not
"convolution." Once you do that, you should retrieve thousands of
references. 

Among these references will be an announcement made just about a month
regarding the information contained on the human Y chromosome. Some of it too
is palindromic and is apparently being used as an internal error-correction
mechanism. For a more technical overview of the process, see:

http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v423/n6942
/full/423810a_r.html
(WTW)

and for a more general description, see:

http://www.marshill.org/Y%20Chromosome%20Error%20Correction.htm

Wirt Atmar
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