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by hikari8 4346 days ago
Experimenting with a simulation is a great time saver as far as it goes, however, all models are just models, subject to the assumptions that went into them.

There is a great deal we do not know about cellular biology. Any simulation would be a fairly gross approximation. The point of many experiments is to further our understanding of the model of cellular mechanics.