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I for one would have liked the algorithmic nature of biology to at least have been mentioned during my high school's two-year IB bio series. I've been reading u
by Mongoose 17y ago
I for one would have liked the algorithmic nature of biology to at least have been mentioned during my high school's two-year IB bio series. I've been reading up on computational biology lately and am mulling over the idea of pursuing research in it. I feel that if my high school biology teacher had spent some time focusing on the computational nature of the field, I would have sooner discovered my interest in CS and potentially made more headway by now.
However, I agree with bbgm. Many (if not most) people would prefer the way biology is currently taught. I'd argue that only a minority of hacker-minded kids would benefit from a computational approach.
- bbgm 17y agoComputational biology is still a very young field, and even a lot of biologists don't quite appreciate the computational aspects. However as Leroy Hood says, biology is fast becoming a digital science and our education around biology has to change. Here's a paper around recent thinking, especially among the comp bio community, in this area http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/20/14/2159 http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/20/14/2...
- Mongoose 17y agoThanks for the link. Here's a paper on natural computing that overviews the various aspects of CS + biology. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844150 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844150