[HN Gopher] Biochemical Pathway Maps
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Biochemical Pathway Maps
Author : exar0815
Score : 16 points
Date : 2021-06-17 21:58 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (biochemical-pathways.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (biochemical-pathways.com)
| Kim_Bruning wrote:
| People sometimes ask me how come a biologist might end up
| programming (or vice versa).
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| Showing them a map like this tends to clear things up pretty
| quickly!
| hprotagonist wrote:
| yeah, but the programmer will believe the chart.
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| the biologist, who knows better, will regard the chart as "our
| current best attempt at documentation, subject to change at any
| time at all"
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| My background is biomedical. This or a very similar chart was
| used in the last week of lectures on control systems as a
| lesson in humility.
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| It was meant to demonstrate both how complex things can be --
| and then, when the professor recolored the lines on a section
| according to the confidence in their correctness as a function
| of recent research, how uncertain our knowledge of that
| complexity really is.
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| He had a backup slide where an entirely new graph, with almost
| no topological similarity to the metabolic one, was created for
| a few of the nodes that participate in other nonmetabolic
| pathways.
| jostmey wrote:
| Agree with you 100%. This chart is just barely scratching the
| surface
| Kim_Bruning wrote:
| It's a pretty cool field!
| etiam wrote:
| Related discussion from about 6 months back (including where to
| find the PDF version).
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25158249
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