Are we smarter than a 10-year old? Quantitative biology yields new insights into bacterial metabolism. |
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UC San Diego: While quantitative biology papers are often filled with complicated mathematical formulas and involved heavy number crunching by computers, Hwa says the mathematics used in this discovery was surprisingly simple. “We just used line plots,” he says. “Our entire study involves just three linear equations. They’re the kind of things my 10-year-old daughter should be able to do. Quantitative biology doesn’t have to be fancy.” Like their mathematical approach, Hwa says his team’s experiments were simple enough most of them could have been done 50 years ago
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