Biology and Informatics: Waiting for the Third Breakthrough?

... involved in genomics, cloning and bioinformatics. The authors call it the Third Impact. In the middle of the last century, Professor Igor Tamm, a distinguished physicist and a Nobel Prize winner, argued that the coming century would be the century of biology, just as the 20th century was the century of physics. In terms of public interest, this scholar was certainly right. But is it so in terms of breakthroughs in science? Analogous to the anime Evangelion, we can assert that the two “impacts” ...