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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • March 26, 2006
    An article by Roger Brent and Jehoshua Bruck:

    ``The road leading from computer formalisms to explaining biological function will be difficult, but Roger Brent and Jehoshua Bruck suggest three hopeful paths that could take us closer to this goal.

    ``It doesn't require vast prophetic vision to identify developments in computers and information technology that will greatly affect the practice of biology. By 2020 we expect that biologists will use computers, numerous 'omic' data types and a greatly expanded biological literature to design experiments, generate and analyse new data, and think about their own work. But we will leave forecasting about PubMed and Google, metadata and the semantic web to others. Instead, we wish to consider some of the formalisms offered by computer science that developed alongside computing machines. The search for biologically relevant formalisms has a chance to greatly affect the understanding of biological function, in ways we are just starting to imagine.''

    Full story (free access):
    http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7083/full/440416a.html

    Nature Publishing has a whole series on the Future of Computing (free access):
    http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/futurecomputing/index.html

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