[dekhn]

I'm profoundly ignorant in neither (PhD in biophysics, software engineer for 20 years). Genomics and programming analogies are cool, but the most important thing is that understanding that molecular structures can encode information in a replicable way, and the discovery of application of entropy to data storage and transmission, demonstrates that information is a universal concept, that the genome is a data storage system, and the enzymes that operate it are operating on information, in a computational way. To me that's a pretty useful comparison.