Reading, Writing, Living, and Feeling:

Reading and writing omes

‘Systems Technologies’ are increasingly potent drivers of biological research. Molecular Systems Biology will be illustrating this evolution with a new Reviews Series highlighting key technologies in systems medicine, genome-scale, computational, quantitative and synthetic biology. The series is launched with a review from the Snyder group on reading human omes (Soon et al, 2013) and a companio...

Reading and Writing*

When we remember that words are sounds merely, we shall conclude that the idea of representing those sounds by marks, so that whoever should, at any time after, see the marks would understand what sounds they meant, was a bold and ingenious.conception, not likely to occur to one man ofa million in the run ofa thousand years...That it was difficult of conception and execution is apparent, as wel...

Concurrent Reading and Writing

L e s l i e L a m p o r t M a s s a c h u s e t t s C o m p u t e r A s s o c i a t e s The problem of sharing data among asynchronous processes is considered. It is assumed that only one process at a time can modify the data, but concurrent reading and writing is permitted. Two general theorems are proved, and some algorithms are presented to illustrate their use. These include a solution to t...

Reading and Writing Plato

W did Plato write dialogues? How should his dialogues be read (does the literary form matter, for example, to our getting at the heart of what Plato is saying)? These questions are now familiar in contemporary Plato scholarship, and their answers—which undoubtedly are interconnected—are the subject of lively and fascinating exploration. Any doubt that Platonic studies -ourishes would quickly be...

Reading, writing, and the whip.