At some point in school, we were taught that humans are a diploid species, made of cells with two sets of chromosomes – one set contributed by each parent. This idea neatly packaged the way we ...

Billions of dollars are flowing into computational biology. From working to find improved outcomes for health issues to better policy planning, it’s possible to find enormous value inside bio-data.

Bioinformatics underpins and enables research across the life sciences. Thus should we encounter, for the very first time, a pocket watch, we would likely take it apart and investigate its parts – not ...