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Editorial

. 2020 Jun 17;21(1):147.

doi: 10.1186/s13059-020-02057-5.

The two languages of science

Itai Yanai¹, Martin Lercher²

Affiliations

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Computational Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, 10016, USA. itai.yanai@nyulangone.org.
² Institute for Computer Science & Department of Biology, Heinrich Heine University, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany. martin.lercher@hhu.de.

PMID: 32552854
PMCID: PMC7298934
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-020-02057-5

Editorial

The two languages of science

Itai Yanai et al. Genome Biol. 2020.

. 2020 Jun 17;21(1):147.

doi: 10.1186/s13059-020-02057-5.

Authors

Itai Yanai¹, Martin Lercher²

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Computational Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, 10016, USA. itai.yanai@nyulangone.org.
² Institute for Computer Science & Department of Biology, Heinrich Heine University, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany. martin.lercher@hhu.de.

PMID: 32552854
PMCID: PMC7298934
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-020-02057-5

No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no competing interests.

Figures

Fig. 1 — Fig. 1
The Heider-Simmel animation. An animated movie involving two triangles and a circle leads us to tell a story filled with motivations and purpose. Redrawn from [19]

Fig. 2 — Fig. 2
The two languages of sciences. Night science ideas—which may be hazy and incompletely formed—are initially expressed with anthropomorphisms and other metaphors, but can be translated eventually into the precise language of day science

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