This reminds me of how Stephen Altschul had to take help from Sam Karlin(mathematician) in order to so solve sequence similarity problem. Stephen had made his p

This reminds me of how Stephen Altschul had to take help from Sam Karlin(mathematician) in order to so solve sequence similarity problem. Stephen had made his problem look like a mathematical one so Sam could take interest in it. This led him to create BLAST one of the most successful tool in Computational Biology. Link: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v31/n10/full/nbt.2721.html http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v31/n10/full/nbt.2721.html