11BIOLOGY
Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.
—Richard Dawkins
As Professor Dawkins points out, computation has become a central tool in many areas of biology. This was perhaps inevitable, as evolution is the central organizing principle of biology, and evolution occurs through the transmission of information in the form of a digital storage device known as DNA.
The biology ecosystem around Julia is sophisticated, wide-ranging, and growing rapidly. The language and its packages are being used in many areas of biological and medical research, in both industry and academia.
This chapter begins with a brief ...
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