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Zack Lynch is author of The Neuro Revolution: How Brain Science Is Changing Our World (St. Martin's Press, July 2009).
He is the founder and executive director of the Neurotechnology Industry Organization (NIO) and co-founder of NeuroInsights. He serves on the advisory boards of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, the Center for Neuroeconomic Studies, Science Progress, and SocialText, a social software company. Please send newsworthy items or feedback - to Zack Lynch.
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April 2, 2003

Biosimulation: Building upon the Past

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Like every technological revolution, the old is supporting the new.  Today's Protein Folding Project is leveraging the distributed computational capabilities of thousands of computers world-wide to unwind the hyper-complex problem of protein folding.  The emerging biological revolution is completely dependent on information technology, just as information technology would have been impossible without industrial age advances like electricity.


As Charles Delisi recently mentioned at a Santa Fe Institute meeting, "there is no way the past ten years of advances in genomics would have been possible without the computational capabilities brought forth by the microchip." 

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