Scherrer and Jost's symposium: the gene concept in 2008.

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Reconsideration of the term "gene" should take into account (a) the potential clash between hierarchical levels of information discussed in the 1970s by Gregory Bateson, (b) the contrast between conventional and genome phenotypes discussed in the 1980s by Richard Grantham, and (c) the emergence in the 1990s of a new science--Evolutionary Bioinformatics--that views genomes as channels conveying multiple forms of...

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