".. that we should look for inspiration in the circuit boards of washing machines and the advice of old Bell Labs telephone repair manuals if we want to find th

".. that we should look for inspiration in the circuit boards of washing machines and the advice of old Bell Labs telephone repair manuals if we want to find the design principles of gene-regulatory networks." Makes sense. Being able to mentally formulate an analog solution from a digital problem is a dying art that is mainly the domain of those alive at the time of analog and digital interaction.