Foreword
I. An Informal Overview
1. Introduction
2. A Brief Overview of Molecular Genetics
3. An Overview of Information Theory
II. Facts of Genetics and Information Theory
4. More on Molecular Genetics
5. More on Information Theory
6. An Outline of Error-Correcting Codes
III. Necessity of Genomic Error Correcting Codes and its Consequences
7. DNA is an Ephemeral Memory
8. A Toy Living World
9. Subsidiary Hypothesis, Nested System
10. Soft Codes
11. Biological Reality Conforms to the Hypotheses
12. Identification of Genomic Codes
13. Conclusion and Perspectives
Bibliography