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The Role of Theory in Biology: Little Impact Thus Far<br />

Sydney Brenner<br />

Princeton University 2003:<br />

The Watson Lecture: Biology in the Era of Complete Genomes<br />

ETH Zürich 2006:<br />

Pauli-Vorlesung: Theoretical Biology in the Next Decade<br />

The close interplay between theory, modeling, and experiment has dominated<br />

many other branches of science, particularly physics and astrophysics,<br />

but it had little impact on biology until now.<br />

I used to refer to the Journal of Theoretical Biology as the cure to insomnia.<br />

No longer will I be able to say that. The genome and its vast accumulation of data<br />

have the potential to change all of that by opening the doors for scientists with<br />

more analytical and theoretical bents.

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