Alice in "Bio-Land": Engineering Challenges in the World of Life Sciences

نویسندگان

  • Alfredo Benso
  • Stefano Di Carlo
  • Gianfranco Politano
  • Alessandro Savino
  • Enrico M. Bucci
چکیده

Alice is an engineer who ventures into the research world of Life Sciences. To her eyes, Life Sciences researchers work backwards compared to what happens in her world. It appears that their research methodology has a number of issues that may limit its potential. Nevertheless, she also becomes aware that a different set of problems arises if her own traditional top-down engineering approach is applied to Life Sciences. This paper discusses how we see the role of Systems and Computational Biology as a fundamental methodological “middle-ground” between these two (apparently) distant worlds.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • IT Professional

دوره 16  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014