The M - TRAN computer cycles through thousands of possible patterns of motion, selecting the most promising candidates, sampling their effectiveness, and then choosing the most promising as the starting point for the next round of candidates. (discovermagazine.com)
Because DNA consists of four different bases, and because there are three bases in a codon, and because 4 * 4 * 4 = 64, there are 64 possible patterns for a codon. (science.howstuffworks.com)
Science in the usual sense does not deal adequately with the factor of coded sequence; it does not often even advert to it, though the use of computer models is beginning to enhance our understanding of the many possible patterns of information at every level of matter and life. (religion-online.org)