"We are rapidly moving into a world where biology can be as manipulable as data. After all, DNA is code; life is information. The new tools and methods we're developing for bioengineering reflect this parallel, and the philosophies underlying the "hacker" ethic (in the original sense of someone devoted to exploration, invention and discovery) are being absorbed by the biological disciplines."
~I don't exactly know what this is about but the way it's being described is too exciting to ignore. He or she had me at "a Semantic Web prototype of a Drug Development Dashboard." (I wonder if I can convince Clare to read this aloud tonight?)
Posted by Cieciel at May 20, 2005 10:51 AM