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Empowering 21st century biology

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Robinson, GE; Banks, JA; Padilla, DK; Burggren, WW; Cohen, CS; Delwiche, CF; Funk, V; Hoekstra, HE; Jarvis, ED; Johnson, L; Martindale, MQ ...
Published in: BioScience
December 1, 2010

Several lists of grand challenges in biology have been published recently, highlighting the strong need to answer fundamental questions about how life evolves and is governed, and how to apply this knowledge to solve the pressing problems of our times. To succeed in addressing the challenges of 21st century biology, scientists need to generate, have access to, interpret, and archive more information than ever before. But for many important questions in biology, progress is stymied by a lack of essential tools. Discovering and developing necessary tools requires new technologies, applications of existing technologies, software, model organisms, and social structures. Such new social structures will promote tool building, tool sharing, research collaboration, and interdisciplinary training. Here we identify examples of the some of the most important needs for addressing critical questions in biology and making important advances in the near future. © 2010 by American Institute of Biological Sciences. All rights reserved.

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BioScience

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0006-3568

Publication Date

December 1, 2010

Volume

60

Issue

11

Start / End Page

923 / 930

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Robinson, G. E., Banks, J. A., Padilla, D. K., Burggren, W. W., Cohen, C. S., Delwiche, C. F., … Tomanek, L. (2010). Empowering 21st century biology. BioScience, 60(11), 923–930. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2010.60.11.8
Robinson, G. E., J. A. Banks, D. K. Padilla, W. W. Burggren, C. S. Cohen, C. F. Delwiche, V. Funk, et al. “Empowering 21st century biology.” BioScience 60, no. 11 (December 1, 2010): 923–30. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2010.60.11.8.
Robinson GE, Banks JA, Padilla DK, Burggren WW, Cohen CS, Delwiche CF, et al. Empowering 21st century biology. BioScience. 2010 Dec 1;60(11):923–30.
Robinson, G. E., et al. “Empowering 21st century biology.” BioScience, vol. 60, no. 11, Dec. 2010, pp. 923–30. Scopus, doi:10.1525/bio.2010.60.11.8.
Robinson GE, Banks JA, Padilla DK, Burggren WW, Cohen CS, Delwiche CF, Funk V, Hoekstra HE, Jarvis ED, Johnson L, Martindale MQ, Rio CMD, Medina M, Salt DE, Sinha S, Specht C, Strange K, Strassmann JE, Swalla BJ, Tomanek L. Empowering 21st century biology. BioScience. 2010 Dec 1;60(11):923–930.
Journal cover image

Published In

BioScience

DOI

ISSN

0006-3568

Publication Date

December 1, 2010

Volume

60

Issue

11

Start / End Page

923 / 930

Related Subject Headings

  • Ecology
  • 41 Environmental sciences
  • 31 Biological sciences
  • 06 Biological Sciences
  • 05 Environmental Sciences