I would like to thank Michael Levitt for providing a tremendous amount of intellectual inspiration and motivation; John Moult for being my mentor in graduate school and giving me a solid direction to proceed; Douglas Hofstadter for writing Gödel, Escher, Bach; David Searls for that one memorable interview I had with him where I was first introduced to the relationship between formal lanuage theory and DNA; Naomi Cotton for provoking me to write the chapter on Strange Loops in Biology; Gerry Goldstein for guiding me to the right path in molecular biology; Bobby Krishnamurthi for picking out the flaws in my thinking and for giving me new ideas; Jeff Nunemacher for constantly pushing me and make me realise I could achieve my dreams; and Alan Zaring for being a friend, philosopher, and the guiding inspiration of my undergraduate life.
I would also like to thank all my professors at OWU, all my friends at CARB and Stanford, all the people I've annoyed in the various computer labs, across the net, and other places with my ramblings, and all the people who've read this and made suggestions---they've helped!