Making sense in biology: an appreciation of Julian Lewis

Arthur D Lander

doi:10.1186/s12915-014-0057-5

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Making sense in biology: an appreciation of Julian Lewis

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In every scientific field, there comes a point when progress stops being limited by the pace at which data can be collected, and instead becomes limited by the pace at which data can be understood
Standing in the midst of this intellectual bazaar, one might get the impression that biology has no traditions of its own for dealing with the complex or massive
Biology has a rich history in this department, supported by the efforts of a handful of individuals who built the quantitative models that are the foundations upon which our most solid qualitative ideas rest

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There comes a point when progress stops being limited by the pace at which data can be collected, and instead becomes limited by the pace at which data can be understood. His work dealt with mechanism and theory of pattern formation, and included seminal contributions to the fields of limb development, Notch signaling, Correspondence: adlander@uci.edu Center for Complex Biological Systems, 2638 Biological Sciences III, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-2300, USA

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