Catalyzing Inquiry at the Interface of Computing and Biology

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 359 structures of key proteins; understanding the changes in protein structure related to in ...

360 CATALYZING INQUIRY Bio:Info:Micro. In collaboration with DSO, IPTO and the Microsystems Technology Office, the Bio:Info:Mic ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 361 problems include tasks of designing specific proteins in less than a day that can cataly ...

362 CATALYZING INQUIRY sists of finding solutions to abstractly formulated problems and then finding real-world problems to whic ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 363 role in a biologist’s education. Traditionally, mathematics (apart from statistics) is n ...

364 CATALYZING INQUIRY Box 10.5 Some Examples of Oversimplified and/or Misleading Computational and Mathematical Models in Biolo ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 365 A related point is that computer scientists tend to assume that universal statements hav ...

366 CATALYZING INQUIRY mental technique and laboratory procedure and instrumentation—much more so than most computer scientists ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 367 and relies on the ability to sift through and recognize patterns in large volumes of dat ...

368 CATALYZING INQUIRY it, characterize it, understand it better, or make it more generally applicable to other problems. Thus, ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 369 10.3.2.2 Publication Venue Although both biologists and computer scientists in academia ...

370 CATALYZING INQUIRY been used, and yet joint authorship or due credit withheld. In one story, a respected biologist held regu ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 371 With such dependence on IT, it would not be surprising if individuals who are especially ...

372 CATALYZING INQUIRY resources flush, it is easy for Department X or Department Y to take a risk on an interdisciplinary schol ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 373 Related to this point is the tension between breadth and depth. Should an individual tra ...

374 CATALYZING INQUIRY small-animal imaging facility, and the Biofilms center. Other core shared facilities available to the Sta ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 375 10.3.3.6 Funding Risk Tight funding environments often engender in researchers a tendenc ...

376 CATALYZING INQUIRY of one person at a 2003 seminar, “This is work for [biological] scientists, not bioinformaticists.” For t ...

CULTURE AND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE 377 develop a sufficient publication record to warrant a faculty position, he or she is for ...

378 CATALYZING INQUIRY To illustrate the consequences in more concrete but future-oriented terms, the list below suggests some o ...