Local (NY) PDP guy needed

Yes, odd indeed. It was like drinking from a fire hose last night. Anyway, the theory goes that the entire genome is coded in base triplets which encode only 64 proteins (6-bits). This "emulation" problem has been gnawing at him for over 10 years and he figures that now since the genome is fully mapped (although functions are still unknown), he can do some good. There has been lots of research, but any testing or whatever is still performed on live tissue. Why not emulate it? I didn't take down his entire curriculum vitae, but he's an EE that got into medicine (podiatry) and has a side interest in genetics (I guess). Hey, I read Scientific American, too, and I having a passing interest, but I'm not a man of medicine. Apparently he read a paper in which this guy in Japan emulated a cell's function in silicon. Why not scale it up is his thought. Anyway, can someone talk 6-bit architecture to this guy?