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In an increasing number of biological laboratories, the focus of research is shifting from sequence data to the functional meaning of that data. No longer content with structural mappings, there is a renewed interest abroad in what the United States Department of Energy calls, ’Bringing Genomes to Life’. For many, this means a movement beyond ’reductionism’ to a ’systems biology’. The question is, what does this mean?
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Keller, E.F. The century beyond the gene. J Biosci 30, 3–10 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02705144
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