Re: Computationally enormity: Well, I agree the computational enormity is a big problem, but certainly some biochemical pathways will be more amenable to this

Re: Computationally enormity: Well, I agree the computational enormity is a big problem, but certainly some biochemical pathways will be more amenable to this type of approach than others, and so it should be possible to make incremental progress by solving one puzzle at a time. Re: Using on any disease I agree having this sort of technology is not an immediate solution to each arbitrary disease. However, being able to accurately predict how different cells in a specific person's body behave to different drug cocktails would give doctors "super powers" that are almost unimaginable today. A doctor with a patient that has cholesterol plaques might say "If we give him these ten drugs in this dosage his T lymphocytes will aggressively attack the plaques in the LAD artery only, and the LAD arterial cells will increase division to reduce risk of subsequent aneurysm from autoimmune side-effects". If the accuracy of the computational model is good enough, it might be just as effective as the old "nanobots in the bloodstream" concept, but much easier to implement. In effect, the patient's own cells could function as the "nanobots" by reprogramming them