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thundara · 4597 days ago · link · · parent · post: Automated science, deep data and the paradox of information
Man, the discussion of modelling cells remind me a lot of a big picture I saw at a presentation a few months ago. It showed a few key proteins in a cell just with lines linking them to all the other proteins they "affected".
It takes a lot of work to analyze exactly how two proteins will bind together, or produce substances that alter the other in some way. But, just having a large system of differential equations can be just as useful as determining in what orientation two domains of two proteins interact and with what affinity. Supposedly that's the budding new field of biology, I had a conversation with my boss a few months ago about it!