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Edge Master Class 2010: W. DANIEL HILLIS ON "CANCERING"
Listening In On The Body's Proteomic Conversation (Part I)
Right now, I am asking a lot of questions about cancer, but I probably should explain how I got to that point, why somebody who's mostly interested in complexity, and computers, and designing machines, and engineering, should be interested in cancer. I'll tell you a little bit about cancer, but before I tell you about that, I'm going to tell you about proteomics, and before I tell you about proteomics, I want to get you to think about genomics differently because people have heard a lot about genes, and genomics in the last few years, and it's probably given them a misleading idea about what's important, how diseases work, and so on. ...
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Edge Master Class 2010: W. DANIEL HILLIS ON "CANCERING"
CANCERING: Listening In On The Body's Proteomic Conversation (PART II)
W. Daniel Hillis
What I've been talking about here is more analysis than construction. The genome is used to construct things, and I'm claiming it's not the best place for analysis of what's going on. Certainly there are times it is useful, but I don't think that's where most of the information is. In fact, in some sense, it is literally true that the information that's in proteomics tells you everything that was in the genome, everything useful that was in the genome. In a sense, the genome is redundant if you have the proteomics, that's theoretical though, because the genome is digital, and we actually have it. In many ways it's enabled proteomics. ...
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Edge Master Class 2009: GEORGE CHURCH & J. CRAIG VENTER: A SHORT COURSE ON SYNTHETIC GENOMICS
George Church: Dreams & Nightmares (Session 1)
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