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> It makes you wonder if we are trying to understand biological systems with a fundamentally wrong approach. Got a better idea?
by roadnottaken 10y ago
> It makes you wonder if we are trying to understand biological systems with a fundamentally wrong approach.
Got a better idea?
- no_flags 10y agoThe last couple pages of the aforementioned paper give some thoughts on that. The author suggests an approach more like engineering that is focused on formalized mathematical descriptions of biological systems.
- scott_s 10y agoThe submitted article talks about attempts to design a minimal set of genes, but they kept failing. The difficulty with your comment is it sounds like you're dismissing the work; I'm sure they are aware of that paper and its lessons. They tried working in that direction and failed.