Stephen Emmott, who works for Microsoft Research, wonders whether to turn the whole approach on its head.

ECONOMIST: Computing and biology: Arresting developments | The

Some 34 of the world's leading biologists, physicists, chemists, Earth scientists and computer scientists, led by Stephen Emmott, of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, Britain, have spent the past eight months trying to understand how future developments in computing science might influence science as a whole.

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