生物信息学的兴起和生命科学的理性化

The Rise of Bioinformatics and the Rationalization of Biology

提出近代科学规范是实证性和理性的结合,指出生物信息学的兴起是生物学理性化的一个重要阶段,讨论了对生物学的理性化的4方面质疑:生命系统的整体性和理性化,逻辑推理方法和理性化,生命系统的随机性和理性化,以及复杂系统的简化模型方法和理性化。对生物科学的理性化作了简短的展望。

It is proposed that the main features of the tradit on and paradigm of modern sciences are experimentalism and rationalism. The rise of bioinformatics is an important stage of the rationalization of biology. Some problems related to the rationalization of the present biology are discussed.