[sabraham]

Sorry to be late to the party-- xaa, could you explain a little more what you mean by

"Ultimately I believe the breakthroughs will come fastest if we can "close the feedback loop" by automating a lot of bench biology, and then have computers both generate and test hypotheses."

I don't know anything about bioinformatics, so I'm trying to see how this differs from vanilla automated model selection. I'm really interested, so please feel free to send me an email if you feel that's more appropriate.