Yes, CellML is a very nice way to describe all the processes within a cell. Also very important. But my understanding is that even with immense supercomputers (today) it still takes significant time to calculate something as banal and commonplace as protein folding. So CellML has its place (say for the AIDSResearch@Home project, in some future incarnation) but it's a bit too much information for geneticists. They'll both have their place. I should hope...
I beg to differ. (But then I am biased.) A well-written VRML browser (and there are many, particularly the one from Parallel Graphics) is at least as stable as Flash or Shockwave.
Perhaps Jaron Lanier is right - computers will never be stable enough to be truly useful. Or perhaps people should stop complaining about the bugs and fix them...
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Yes, CellML is a very nice way to describe all the processes within a cell. Also very important. But my understanding is that even with immense supercomputers (today) it still takes significant time to calculate something as banal and commonplace as protein folding. So CellML has its place (say for the AIDSResearch@Home project, in some future incarnation) but it's a bit too much information for geneticists. They'll both have their place. I should hope...
Does anyone know if VRML 97 (which is the 3D composing layer of MPEG-4) is included in the CODEC?
Perhaps Jaron Lanier is right - computers will never be stable enough to be truly useful. Or perhaps people should stop complaining about the bugs and fix them...
Just my 2 cents.
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