I work in bioinformatics and have a reasonable amount of experience in the lab. In my perspective, scientific fields like computer science and biology progress

I work in bioinformatics and have a reasonable amount of experience in the lab. In my perspective, scientific fields like computer science and biology progress in opposite directions. We are starting to see the intersection of the progression. In computer science, a strong artificial foundation is built and we abstract from that foundation to get complex and useful results. In life sciences, we have the complex results and we are trying to reduce it to get at the foundational elements. Computer science fields like computer vision or neuro-networks are progressing towards complexity that biologists might regularly see in their research. And genome editing technologies are progressing towards the fundamental building blocks computer scientists might normally expect in a system.