Questions like these where the reason I studied mathematics and informatics, decades ago. I didn't have any opportunities to do more than to just read a tiny fraction of the literature in my free time, but I enjoy the fact that there is indeed some synergy between theoretical and practical scienes at work, here. Recommended reading.
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Biology’s next great horizon is to understand cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas (even if unthinking ones)
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