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And we think we're going to hack this thing?
by laretluval 9y ago
And we think we're going to hack this thing?
- subroutine 9y agoWhat could go wrong? /s It's too bad there's no virtual environment for the homo sapien OS.
- sargun 9y agoThere have been several attempts to virtualize cells, and come up with expressive PLs for hacking metabolic pathways. Turns out shit is too complicated
- killjoywashere 9y agoAw, hell yes.
- 21 9y agoTo be fair, it looks like it could use a bit of refactoring.
- lmilcin 9y agoMore like a full rewrite. There is too much legacy, it is too difficult to read and the original developer is not responding to queries.
- vmasto 9y agoTypical case. The original developer has abandonded the project, maintainers make a complete mess of it, project ends up electing Trump as president of the United States.
- honestoHeminway 9y agoI wish there was a jenkins variant that would reject because of architecture violations. PullReuest was Rejected: No Singletons in this Component. No Singletons in this project.
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- cal5k 9y agoI think visualizing Linux kernel development can give a little perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iFnzr73XXk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iFnzr73XXk If you view it in a single graph... yes, it seems completely intractable. If you can break it down into subcomponents and track the dependencies, it becomes much more tractable.
- CuriouslyC 9y agoThe thing with biochemistry is that it is highly connected, and very complex. Molecules aren't just products, they can also bind to gene regulators, or stabilize protein complexes. You can't cleanly separate parts of the system.
- cellis 9y agoReminds me of a talk by Andrew Endy[1], a long time ago, about synthetic biology. The essence is that his vision is to create "building blocks" of bio that have standard interfaces so you can then "code" them instead of untangling this spaghetti of life. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJFqqxxtbRY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJFqqxxtbRY
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThis only means we need better tooling and better abstractions to be able to tackle this problem.
- jerven 9y agoDifference with the linux kernel one is that this one is rather uncomplete. There are a lot of biological pathways that are just unknown.