Problems in Mathematizing Systems Biology
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Problems in Mathematizing Systems Biology. / Gramelsberger, Gabriele.
Philosophy of Systems Biology: Perspectives from Scientists and Philosophers. ed. / Sara Green. Copenhagen : Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. p. 99 - 107 (History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences; Vol. 20).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Problems in Mathematizing Systems Biology
AU - Gramelsberger, Gabriele
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - “I think biology stands out as a discipline in which there has been a wild flowering of interdisciplinary approaches – bioinformatics, for example, and applications of informational visualization. This flowering has not kept pace with our understanding. For example, there is a small industry devoted to creating visualization tools for biologists. One of the prominent standards for assessing whether these tools perform well is whether using the tools facilitates insight; but there remains conceptual confusion within the info-vis community about just what counts as an insight, about how to measure or even count insights, and about whether insight is the proper standard for success as opposed to, say, some speed-related standard. This is just the sort of issue for which philosophers of science, and maybe even some epistemologists, are especially well equipped to address.”
AB - “I think biology stands out as a discipline in which there has been a wild flowering of interdisciplinary approaches – bioinformatics, for example, and applications of informational visualization. This flowering has not kept pace with our understanding. For example, there is a small industry devoted to creating visualization tools for biologists. One of the prominent standards for assessing whether these tools perform well is whether using the tools facilitates insight; but there remains conceptual confusion within the info-vis community about just what counts as an insight, about how to measure or even count insights, and about whether insight is the proper standard for success as opposed to, say, some speed-related standard. This is just the sort of issue for which philosophers of science, and maybe even some epistemologists, are especially well equipped to address.”
KW - Digital media
KW - Synthetic Biology
KW - Flux Balance Analysis
KW - System Biology Markup Language
KW - Ozone Hole
KW - Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
KW - Philosophy
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-47000-9_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-47000-9_9
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3-319-46999-7
T3 - History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
SP - 99
EP - 107
BT - Philosophy of Systems Biology
A2 - Green, Sara
PB - Springer International Publishing AG
CY - Copenhagen
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