Instead, the naked viral RNA may alter the function of the cells through a mechanism similar to RNA interference, in which the presence of certain RNAsequences can turn genes on and off.
More recently Gerald Joyce at Scripps has reported experiments in which two RNAsequences form collectively autocatalytic sets, each catalyzing the ligation of fragments that form the other.
Digital coding of RNAsequences has great advantage of mathematical and logical operations: (1) According to the parity of RNA digital sequences the last nucleotide bases can be determined.