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Recent publication of analyses of the human genome sequence dramatically signals a turn in biology research from reductionist dissection to systems integration. Mathematical and computational tools, clearly indispensable for genome assembly and sequence comparisons, have otherwise become almost invisible in recent molecular biology. Because systems with only two or three independent variables can exhibit extraordinarily complex behaviors in time and space, there has long been a need for application of mathematics and computation to the understanding and analysis of biological systems. Arrival of the sequenced human genome now makes efforts in these directions imperative.

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Bailey, J. Complex biology with no parameters.Nat Biotechnol 19, 503–504 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/89204

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