Home > Archives > Additional Archives > James M. Bower   James M. Bower Professor of Biology California Institute of Technology Affiliated Faculty Computational Neuroscience Program Nebrew University, Jerusalem jbower@bbb.caltech.edu What Role will Computational Techniques and Databases Play in the Evolution of Biology as a Science: Lessons from the 17th Century?   The objective of this talk is to attempt to place the current state of biological research in a more historical context derived from the 2000+ year history of the evolution of theories concerning the organization of the solar system. While the two subjects considered are quite different, we will explore the hypothesis that changes in biological research brought about by the explosive growth in computer power and computational tools have placed biological science in a position roughly equivalent to the state of astronomy and physics in the 16th and 17th centuries. If this analysis is correct, then there are several important lessons that can be learned from the comparison. Examples will be provided from current computational work on the mammalian cerebellum.
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