Data, Information, and all that....

If this is worth anything, I have a book by Griffiths, Miller, Suzuki, Lewonton, and Gelbart entitled "Genetic Analysis. In here, refer to DNA as information, but put quotes around information as if to imply that it is not accurate description. They later use the recipe analogy and say, "If DNA represents information, what constitutes form as the cellular level?" I'm not sure, here, if they are using information as an analogy or a description. I have yet to see them refer to DNA as information without quotes, but then again I haven't even come close to exhaustively reading the textbook...so who knows.