📚 Genetic Code

Books with genetic code on their catalogue record, first published between 1936 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject genetic code in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 153 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The double helix	James D. Watson	1968	60
	The Genetic Code	Isaac Asimov	1936	29
	A Crack in Creation	Jennifer A. Doudna	2017	11
	What mad pursuit	Francis Crick	1988	7
	Least Likely Man	Franklin H. Portugal	2015	6
	The code of life	Ernest Borek	1965	5
	Analysis of Protein Post-Translational Modifications by Mass Spectrometry	John R. Griffiths	2016	4
	Verborgener Schlüssel zum Leben	Schönberger, Martin Maria	1973	3
	Post-translational modifications in health and disease	Cecilio J. Vidal	2010	3
	Code Biology	Marcello Barbieri	2015	3
	The Secret of Life	Howard Markel	2021	3
	Morsealphabet des Lebens, Grundlagen der Vererbung	Walter Botsch	1965	2
	The genetic code	Carl R. Woese	1967	2
	The code of life	Alvin Silverstein	1972	2
	Biosynthèse des protéines	F. Chapeville	1974	2
	Le Code génétique	Unknown author	1975	2
	Nouvelle grille	Henri Laborit	1977	2
	Biyologyah moleḳularit	Max Herzberg	1980	2
	Gene structure and transcription	Trevor J. C. Beebee	1988	2
	DNA Simplified	Daniel H. Farkas	1996	2
	Protein Synthesis	Robin Martin	1998	2
	Who Wrote the Book of Life?	Lily E. Kay	2000	2
	Cracking the Genome	Kevin Davies	2001	2
	Translation mechanisms	Jacques Lapointe	2003	2
	Biosemiotics	Jesper Hoffmeyer	2008	2
	Gene und Stammbäume	Volker Knoop	2009	2
	Recoding	John F. Atkins	2011	2
	The Translational Apparatus of Photosynthetic Organelles	R. Mache	2011	2
	Life's greatest secret	Matthew Cobb	2015	2
	Statisticheskiĭ analiz problemy aminokislotnogo koda	N. V. Luchnik	1963	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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