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IMO, an atomic-resolution cell simulator would be extremely useful.

If you have an atomic-resolution cell simulator, you can add lots of automatic interpretation to layer up the information. For example, you can use relatively basic inference software to get a list of metabolite interactions (and their rates and derivatives). An additional layer would contain inferences about the way those metabolites move inside the ER and so on.

Even with those layers, the amount of brain power needed to understand anything would be significant. We may not have enough experts or expert-years to accomplish much. Perhaps a further step would be to make the models more accessible to people with less specialization. Even find more playful names for cell metabolites, the ones we use right now are utterly unpronounceable.




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