Fig 1. Carl von Linné, the Swedish botanist and father of taxonomy, would be a computational biologist today.
Image credit: Nationalmuseum Stockholm.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002050.g001
In the March publication of PLOS Biology, Florian Markowetz argues that All biology is computational biology.
Here is the Abstract:
Here, I argue that computational thinking and techniques are so central to the quest of understanding life that today all biology is computational biology. Computational biology brings order into our understanding of life, it makes biological concepts rigorous and testable, and it provides a reference map that holds together individual insights. The next modern synthesis in biology will be driven by mathematical, statistical, and computational methods being absorbed into mainstream biological training, turning biology into a quantitative science.
To support his argument, he enumerates and elaborates on the following points:
- Computational biology brings order into our understanding of life
- Computational biology lets you see the big picture
- Computational biology provides an atlas of life
- Computational biology turns ideas into hypotheses
It's an interesting article. Click through to All biology is computational biology for the full argument.
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