Big leap in bio-engineering: scientists simulate an entire organism in software for the first time ever

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Scientists at Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute -- remember the Human Genome project -- have simulated an entire organism in software for the first time ever.

Using a 128-node computing cluster, a team of scientists led by Stanford professor Markus Covert incorporated data from more than 900 scientific papers and 1,900 experiments to simulate every molecular interaction and the effects of all 525 genes of the smallest known free-living bacterium: the parasite…

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Can we put this in a loop? We would simulate eternal life this way :)

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