3AI FOR DATA INTERPRETATION

DOI: 10.1201/9781003226642-3

At the turn of the 21st century, biology underwent a step change in its existence as a disciplinary field of research, with the publication of the first full draft of the human genome (Lander et al., 2001). This project, which involved computational support from its inception, heralded the arrival of an age of ‘big data’ in biology – and the pace of data generation has only accelerated since then. By now there are a whole family of different types of large-scale measurements that are routinely used in biological research to measure different aspects of the genome and its downstream products such as transcripts and proteins in living cells. And, while the first human genome took a decade ...

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