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You've learned a lot about how computing power gives us new perspectives on biology. At the center of it all is a component more advanced than any silicon chip inside a computer processor. It's the human brain. Biologists, engineers, physicists, computer scientists, epidemiologists, geneticists and even writers and artists have brought their brainpower to the table to solve these old and new problems.
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What Ever Happened to Ryan Harrison? | 5/6/10
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What Is an Ontology? | 8/10/09
Computer scientists are building virtual libraries called ontologies that organize biological knowledge using a universal language.
Writing Life | 2/27/08
Meet the writers of Computing Life and find out how their journalism careers merge interests in science and writing.
Crossword Puzzle: Solve the Clues of Computing Life | Accessible Version
Test your knowledge of computational biology! Find clues to this puzzle in articles throughout the print issue.
Quiz: Computers in Science | Accessible Version
Think you got what it takes to compute life? Take this quiz!
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» Time for Computation
» Excerpts from an Internship
» Programming Biology
» Think You Want to Compute Life?
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