ON THE SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE AND REDUNDANCY DISTRIBUTION OF THE GENETIC-CODE

By means of an algorithm for finding rules in data, it is shown that t he genetic code may be written as a codon-tree, independent of amino a cid assignments. Considering this tree as a structural description, a low-complexity, context-free grammar of the code is built and its gram mar complexity and grammar redundancy calculated. The relationship bet ween the codon-tree and the hierarchy of amino acid categorisations pr eviously introduced by the author is investigated. Interpreting the ob tained code's structure as a record of its evolution, some inferences about the divergences of the code series are made.