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Lets imagine you can simulate a sperm a cell over it's cell cycle. What do you want to learn about the sperm after you've got your simulation? After you've simu
by j7ake 10y ago
Lets imagine you can simulate a sperm a cell over it's cell cycle. What do you want to learn about the sperm after you've got your simulation? After you've simulated the sperm you have not yet gained any insight towards how the sperm.
Analogously, you don't need to do molecular dynamics simulations of rocket ships in order to understand how it works. In fact that would be the wrong abstraction. Similarly an atom by atom simulation of the human body would be the wrong abstraction to understand physiology.
Computational models need to be useful. I am not convinced this approach to simulate the cell would be useful.