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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 20 May 2011 05:24:29PM 4 points [-]

This is based on guessing what bioinformatics means: How close is our ability to handle information to the complexity of living things? What compromises need to be made to get relatively good predictions? What are the frontiers?

Comment author: rysade 21 May 2011 03:27:50AM *  0 points [-]

I agree, I would like to know how far we are from really meaningful biological simulation. For example, the Blue Brain Project has marvelous ambitions, but it is trying to model biological / 'analog' processes with digital computers. Does this create fidelity problems, and would those problems matter?

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