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biocode en · NOUN

Etymology

From bio- + code.

Meanings

1. A unified taxonomic system, such as the BioCode.
   • Pettitt (1990) has advocated the use of sort/search codes to aid the computerisation of specimen records, and Heppell (1990) has outlined a biocode system for taxonomic names. 1994, Geoff Stansfield, John Mathias, Gordon Reid, Manual of Natural History Curatorship, →ISBN, page 92:
   • A prerequisite for such a biocode is to compile a list of all valid names for living and extinct beings. 2005, ASM News - Volume 71, Issues 1-6, page 276:
   • The most valuable innovation of the new API 20C was the development of the biocode system. 1991, G.A. Land, M.R. McGinnis, I.F. Salkin, “Evaluation of commercial kits and systems for the rapid identification and biotyping of yeasts”, in Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology and Immunology:
2. A single numeric value calculated from a collection of biometric data; profile.
   • Some biocodes for new species give identifications for species already included in the database. In these cases, additional tests must be performed to arrive at the correct identification. However, some new species do generate biocodes that are unique. 2006, Elmer W. Koneman, Koneman's Color Atlas and Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology, →ISBN:
   • Based on the coded values for sensitivity or resistance to the six chemicals, a six-digit biocode or profile was prepared. 1992, Mycopathologia, page 13:
   • These scores are added to generate a biocode that can be matched to a database of biocodes to give the identity of the organism tested. 2014, Mary Louise Turgeon, Linne & Ringsrud's Clinical Laboratory Science, →ISBN:
3. An arbitrary number or string for identifying a biological organism.
   • The number given before the generic name is the biocode used in the museum for cataloguing purposes. 1983, David Heppell, Shelagh Mary Smith, Recent Cephalopoda in the collections of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh:
4. The genomes of one or more interacting organisms.
   • "God code doesn't necessarily prove that God exists,” Schiller explained. “The God code is merely a massive compilation of thousands of different biocodes that have been collected by Tento's main bioscanner at TIS." 2008, Jason Egroff, The Tento Saga: Mankind's Perilous Journey, →ISBN, page 202:
   • Increasingly, we are moving from sequencing one genome at a time to groups of genomes. In the future, we might all have our complete biocode sequenced (all our genomes). A biocode could be the genomes of any organism, a bioreactor, a building, or a larger system, such as the island of Moorea. 2015, Dawn Field, Neil Davies, Biocode: The New Age of Genomics, →ISBN:
5. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of bio-code.
   alt of bio-code
   • However, the government's plan to manage and control individual biocodes, such as fingerprints, will likely cause controversy. 2004, Japanese Morning Press Highlights - Issue 6, page 90:
   • The pharmacopornographic entrepreneurs, who are among the contemporary leaders in global capitalism, are trying to restrict and privatize the biocodes of gender and convert them into rare and naturalized objects by means of legal and market techniques. 2013, Paul B. Preciado, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopronographic Era, →ISBN, page 394:
   • The stirring of the cognitive potential means that the biocodes within the body-mind organism are made to respond to the demands of the communicational setting. 1997, South Asian Language Review - Volumes 7-8, page 86:
6. Any water-soluble bioreactive substance.
   • Basic preparatory activities aimed to preserve archaeological wood are usually either biocode or stabilizing conservation methods (Dyrkowa, Jagielska 1981). 1993, Annals of Warsaw Agricultural University, SGGW-AR:
   • NACWA has also been a participant in discussions with EPA on pennethrin-impregnated clothing and copper and silver biocodes that may create problems for aquatic life. 2008, Emerging Contaminants in U.S. Waters:
   • But after an administration of nanites preprogrammed with epithelial biocodes cleared him right up, he'd been completely sold on the technology. 2017, Saul Tanpepper, Control: The Post-Apocalyptic Thriller:
   • A variety of other biocodes such as ozone may prove to be advantageous in RO systems but have not been adequately studied. 1992, United States Congress House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Desalination Research:

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biocode en · VERB

Etymology

From bio- + code.

Meanings

1. To encode using biological signals or markers.
   • Complex carbohydrates are built for high-density biocoding, which is at par with proteins and nucleic acids and their role and importance is widely being recognized. 2014, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, →ISBN:
   • In fact, then there is no reason why complex carbohydrates should shy at competition with nucleic acids and proteins for the top spot in high-density biocoding. 2011, Hans-Joachim Gabius, The Sugar Code: Fundamentals of Glycosciences, →ISBN:
   • The hormone, then, operates according to a logic of tele-action: the capacity to modify an organ by the emission of biocoded information from some distance away. 2013, Paul B. Preciado, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopronographic Era, →ISBN, page 160:
2. To classify biological organisms by assigning biocodes to them.
   • The selection rule thus gained yields a more logically primal code derivation than Crick's more formal approach, and also provides certain powerful testing criteria, which eventually, will enable us in turn even to supersede them in solving this fundamental biocoding problem. 2013, Charles Arthur Musés, Aspects of the Theory of Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN:
   • And the money's still flooding in, there'll be biocoding work for the next decade. 2013, Richard Morgan, The Complete SF Collection, →ISBN:
   • Already the first efforts at 'barcoding' entire ecological communities and creating 'genomic observatories' have begun. The future, the authors argue, will involve biocoding the entire planet. 2016, John Parrington, Redesigning Life: How Genome Editing Will Transform the World, →ISBN:

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