Wired News: Genome Model Applied to Software
"What does uncovering the secret language of DNA have in common with reverse-engineering Microsoft software? "
This is the first time I see bioinformatics tools helping people working with information technology problems. After years of one way traffic in knowledge sharing it might be that bioinformatics is producing useful general tools :) great stuff
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Fascinating
Very interesting story - as you say, we don't see a lot of the "reverse flow" from biology to computer science. Hopefully this go some way to a better integration of the disciplines - I still find that biologists and computer scientists have very different ideas of what comprises "bioinformatics".