“It is such a simple and intuitive solution, I can’t believe we did not think of this 25 years ago,” said co-author Noga Alon, a mathematician and computer scientist at Tel Aviv University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.
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“Computational and mathematical models have long been used by scientists to analyze biological systems,” said Bar-Joseph, a member of the Lane Center for Computational Biology in Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science. “Here we’ve reversed the strategy, studying a biological system to solve a long-standing computer science problem.”
