Wolfram on Bioinformatics

Old interview [ 01/21/2003 ], but it is interesting to see Wolfram [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram ], creator of Mathematica, thinking about how to model the execution of the code called genome... we have reached the second half of 2007... Mr. Wolfram, any news?

clipped from www.oreillynet.com Wolfram: Bioinformatics has traditionally concentrated on handling genomic data---mostly in the form of strings. What's now starting in computational biology is the study of actual processes that operate in biological systems. The things I've discovered in writing A New Kind of Science suggest a framework for thinking about such processes. The key idea is to think in terms of simple programs---and to use those to capture the essential mechanisms in biological systems. From genomics we know the lowest level code for biological organisms; now we have to have models for how that code actually runs.