Biofutures
Abstract
The goal of the 2000 JASON summer study on Biofutures" was to explore prospects for computer modeling of cellular biochemical networks and to ask more generally about the role of modeling in biology. Indeed, it is far from clear that reductionist models from the physical sciences are the right paradigm -- methodologies taken from operations research or electrical engineering may be more relevant 2. Comments on modeling from biologists range from complaints about the lack of biological realism to categorical statements that groups who do not buy into these developments are going to be left behind. A majority of biologists are quite skeptical about the utility of models, notwithstanding the success of, for example, the Hodgkin-Huxley model of electrical impulses in nerve cells.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA392937
Entities
People
- Deborah J. Nelson
- F. Dyson
- H. Abarbanel
- S. Block
- T. Hwa
Organizations
- MITRE Corporation