Datasets for manuscript: The nature, representation and measure of genetic information

Current studies in genetics very often refer to notions from information science. The concept of genetic information is still disputed because it attributes semantic traits to what seem to be regular biochemical entities. Some researchers maintain that the use of information in biology is just metaphorical and maybe even misleading. In this paper, we offer an analysis of the nature and characteristics of the use of information in proteins, protein families, and their sequences. It is argued that the foundation of the metaphorical view is relatively weak given the current findings in bioinformatics, and it is shown that the present understanding of genetics fits well into the context of the modern philosophy of information. Here, we propose an extension of Floridi’s conceptual model of information to include genetic information better. In addition, we discuss how to understand the qualitative aspects of genetic information and how to measure its quantitative aspects and present a joint s...