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Making Biological Computing Smarter
Tools for thought in the age of biological knowledge
Email: Nina Fedoroff - nvf1@psu.edu; Steve Racunas - sracunas@gmail.com; Jeff Shrager - jshrager@stanford.edu The Scientist 2005, 19(11):20
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Experimental biologists today sit at the edge of enormous bodies of information. Although much of it still resides in journals, primary information increasingly inhabits the digital realm. Knowledge bases, which represent facts and experimental observations using abstractions such as metabolic pathways and regulatory networks, have grown in sophistication. And organismal databases abound, varying in complexity from simple repositories to constellations of highly integrated knowledge.
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