Knowledge Rocks! » Bio-Informatics http://www.joelalleyne.net Musings, thoughts and opinions on Info Tech (IT), Info Management (IM) and Knowledge Management (KM) Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:19:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Watching Swine Flu evolve http://www.joelalleyne.net/2009/05/23/watching-swine-flu-evolve/ http://www.joelalleyne.net/2009/05/23/watching-swine-flu-evolve/#comments Sat, 23 May 2009 16:20:37 +0000 Joel Alleyne http://www.joelalleyne.net/?p=79 As swine flu (or should I be calling this H1N1) was at the top of the news, I saw this story on TV about a genetic scientist who was riveted to his computer screen watching the genetic sequence of the virus as it was changing. He has these strings of numbers and characters coming up on his screen with highlights when one of the digits or characters changed. In near-real-time he was watching the evolution of the virus.

As I watched this story, I was reminded how even biology today is an information science. The importance of data and information to generating knowledge about this virus is underscored in stories such as this.

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