
The next software revolution: programming biological cells | Sara-Jane Dunn
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Using Computer Science to Incode Genetic Interactions in Embryonic Stem Cells
Computer science has a set of strategies for dealing with what it is the software and hardware meant to do. We were able to use this tool to incode observations as mathematical expressions, and then that tool would allow us to uncover the genetic programme that could explain them all. The field urgently needs to develop new approaches to understand biological computation at different levels - from d through to flow of information between cells. Only this kind of trans formative understanding will enable us to harness biology in ways that are predictable and reliable. But to programm biology, we will also need to develop tools and languages that allow both experimentalists and computational scientists to design biological function.
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