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Putting the "Bio" Back in Bioinformatics
Comparative genomics could offer pathway information that will help drug discovery efforts
Email: James R Brown - james.r.brown@gsk.com The Scientist 2004, 18(24):44
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The renowned Canadian literary scholar, Northrop Frye, once wrote: "The more trustworthy the evidence, the more misleading it is."[1]
Although he was not referring to the biotechnology revolution, to my mind it is an apt caveat for the contemporary challenges facing the field of bioinformatics in drug discovery. We are becoming awash in new "evidence" (substitute "data") revealing in great depth the intricacies of cellular life, but are we properly using these data to find new medicines?
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