Category Archives: Genomics

An Overview of Systems Biology

November 19, 2007 – 3:57 pm

Back in 2003, the National Research Council commissioned me to write a chapter about “systems biology” for a report they were doing on the relation between biology and information technology. Since the report, which eventually appeared as Catalyzing Inquiry at the Interface of Computing and Biology (2005), was radically reorganized after my assignment was done, [...]

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The New Genomic Medicine

November 7, 2007 – 9:36 pm

One of the most frustrating things about our relentlessly partisan debate over health care is that the proposals on every side are so-linear. Are drugs too expensive, and do too many people lack insurance? Subsidize them. Are malpractice awards spiraling out of control? Cap them. Is the total cost of health care growing faster than [...]

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