The rise of computational biology

• Published in: Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology Vol. 3; no. 6; pp. 459 - 463
• Main Author: Noble, Denis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.06.2002; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: Animals; Biochemistry; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Cancer Research; Cell Biology; Computational Biology - trends; Developmental Biology; Humans; Life Sciences; Models, Biological; opinion-2; Signal Transduction; Stem Cells
• ISSN: 1471-0072; 1471-0080
• DOI: 10.1038/nrm810

The year 2001 saw a remarkable burst of interest in biological simulation, with several international meetings on the subject, and the inclusion, by journals, of web site references from which published models can be downloaded. So, why has all this happened so suddenly?