Data science and molecular biology: prediction and mechanistic explanation.

In the last few years, biologists and computer scientists have claimed that the introduction of data science techniques in molecular biology has changed the characteristics and the aims of typical outputs (i.e. models) of such a discipline. In this paper we will critically examine this claim. First,...

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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 198; no. 4; pp. 3131 - 3157
Main Authors:	López-Rubio, Ezequiel, Ratti, Emanuele
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Apr2021
Subjects:	Data science Molecular biology Machine learning Prediction models Molecular models Biologists
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost