Quoting "J.W. Bizzaro" <bizzaro at geoserve.net>: > jarl van katwijk wrote: > > > > You'd agree when I say Bioinformatics is the biology term of what is more > generally called Complexity? > > Hmmm. That's a new one to me. Are you talking about complexity in math or > comp sci or what? Aren't they more or less the same? For what it is worth, I'm sitting in a class (call it "guest student") on bioinformatics offered through comp sci at U of Chicago. It has been quite amusing so far... Ever listen to computer scientists try to teach other computer scientists about protein transcription and translation? :) This course is more focused on teaching algorithms for different aspects in bioinformatics (mostly sequence analysis), so I also keep hearing the phrase "well, it's actually messier than that..." I think the plan was originally to stay focused on deterministic solutions, until I spoke up and pointed out that probabilistic methods are making great in-roads (HMMs, Bayesian estimation, etc.), and so this week included a real hand-wavy lecture about Markov chains and HMMs: "You use a subset of the data to make your probability estimates from which you build your model and then extrapolate to larger datasets." Quite an original explanation. Cheers, -j ------------------------ J. Steinbachs, PhD Computational Biologist Dept Botany The Field Museum Chicago, IL 60605-2496 312-665-7810 312-665-7158 (fax) http://cb.fmnh.org -------------------------