pre-Alpha

In the pre-Alpha world, preexisting proteins combined with encoding and/or decoding mechanisms would be as close as you could get to having a "dictionary" for protein sequences.

Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

But in the pre-Alpha world, the only source where you could possibly look up the correct sequence of amino acids for a functional protein would have been to use an actual functional protein as the model and encode back to the symbol sequence, thereby converting the actual sequence into its symbolic equivalent.

Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

Whereas the word "mountain" represents a mountain without being a mountain, and a sequence of codons can represent an amino acid sequence without being one, everything in that pre-Alpha replicating picture above is still just itself.

Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

They discuss their pre-Alpha careers as cyber-escorts in other TSO cities, their arrival in Alpha, and their introduction when Lady Julianna called Mistress LaVeaux to mediate a dispute between two Doms in the Alphaville BDSM community.

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So he built a pre-Alpha version for everyone to use.

Gizmodo Casey Chan 2011

And 'a taste 'is just the way to describe the pre-Alpha version of Firefox 3.7 that is currently up for grabs for early adopters via the company's FTP servers.

Softpedia News - Global Marius Oiaga 2010

And 'a taste 'is just the way to describe the pre-Alpha version of Firefox 3.7 that is currently up for grabs for early adopters via the company's FTP servers.

Softpedia News - Global Marius Oiaga 2010

Mozilla has launched a "pre-Alpha" version of Firefox for Android smartphones.

OSDir.com 2010

Being pre-Alpha, the team warns the build has only been tested on the Motorola Droid and Nexus One handsets.

MacNN | The Macintosh News Network 2010

Being pre-Alpha, the team warns the build has only been tested on the Motorola Droid and Nexus One handsets.

MacNN | The Macintosh News Network 2010