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Re:The business of extracting knowledge from academic public... by Kim_Bruning on Thursday November 02, 2023 @01:48AM (#38109429)
I'd say it's less like pillars and more like (emergence) layers, with proteins being a pretty important layer .

I'm now not entirely sure what your experience is with bio sciences. You're definitely coming at it from an odd angle though!

Re:The business of extracting knowledge from academic public... by riku_iki on Thursday November 02, 2023 @01:56AM (#38109479)
I didn't claim expertise, that's why I say "it looks like", "I suspect",
Re:The business of extracting knowledge from academic public... by Kim_Bruning on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:05AM (#38109533)
Well, maybe find some time and dive in a bit and see what can be found?

You never know, maybe you'll end up contributing to our understanding of life, maybe (indirectly) even save a few lives!

Re:The business of extracting knowledge from academic public... by riku_iki on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:10AM (#38109559)
I am working on the service which potentially can answer questions like in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38109294

life science is one of potential applications if there is an interest and money.

Re:The business of extracting knowledge from academic public... by Kim_Bruning on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:22AM (#38109629)
So the pathway to synthesize every protein is +/- the same: That's gene transcription[1] and translation[2]. If that's broken, you're in big trouble!

But if you mean in general if you're capable of looking at protein pathways where each protein catalyses a step in the pathway, that's definitely interesting. If a certain person has a flawed gene coding for protein X, that could indeed cause a problem.

To find valid answers, you might need to eg. track nodes and states in a graph, to figure all the consequences of a break. Not all types of storage systems/engines are equally good at that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_(biology)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_(biology)

Re:The business of extracting knowledge from academic public... by riku_iki on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:34AM (#38109710)
> Not all types of storage systems/engines are equally good at that.

Yes, I built system which traverses paths in graphs with 1B nodes and 10B links in 1h on affordable server. But that's only one part of the puzzle.

Re:The business of extracting knowledge from academic public... by Kim_Bruning on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:40AM (#38109757)
Neat!