How near is biology to completing the puzzle of life?

Schrödinger, with his prescient emphasis in 1943 that the molecular information store underlying heredity was probably an "aperiodic crystal", helped to inspire one of the two main research streams of molecular biology. [...]what do biologists do when the number of variables, interactions...

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Published in:Times Higher Education 2019-02 (2396)
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Amino acids
Biologists
Biology
Brain
Cytology
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA
Genomes
Heredity
Information Transfer
Molecular Biology
Network Analysis
Organic Chemistry
Organisms
Yonath, Ada E
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Summary:Schrödinger, with his prescient emphasis in 1943 that the molecular information store underlying heredity was probably an "aperiodic crystal", helped to inspire one of the two main research streams of molecular biology. [...]what do biologists do when the number of variables, interactions between components or possible arrangements of parts increases by a few orders of magnitude - when, as University of California, San Francisco neuroscientist Saul Kato put it, you can't work out how something is working just by looking at it? [...]Kato suggested, biology is in an age of excessive data.
ISSN:0049-3929