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A parallel reply is that the field of “omics” (genomics, proteomics, interactomics…) has long embraced graphs as their primary mathematical tool.
by syntaxfree 4y ago
A parallel reply is that the field of “omics” (genomics, proteomics, interactomics…) has long embraced graphs as their primary mathematical tool.
- college_physics 4y agoI have deep respect for how the fields around medicine and biosciences embrace information technologies. Maybe it goes with their territory, being serious and for the long term rather than the "fake it till you make" type cultures and continuous churn and hypes that you see elsewhere. You can see the impact e.g. in the R ecosystem where a good chunk of packages is bio related or the fact that the only user-friendly ontology tool (protege) and the main example of good use of related graph concepts is from bioinformatics
- j-pb 4y agoI wouldn't exactly call protege user friendly. But this reminds me of a joke we told in our working group: "SNOMED can't tell you whats wrong with you when you're sick, but it can infer that your "Toe bone is connected to your foot bone" a whopping 2 million times a second."