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Memento complexitatis: remember complexity

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An impressive poster summarizing biochemical pathways reminds us how complex life is, and how interconnected the world is.

The other day I ran across the biochemical pathways poster from Roche. This is the first of two posters. Both posters are about 26 square feet in area. Below is a close up of about one square foot in the middle of the first poster. I’d seen this before, I think while I was working at MD Anderson Cancer Center, and it’s quite an impressive piece of work. A lot of work went into the production of the posters themselves, but the amount of hard-won knowledge the posters represent is mind-boggling. One little arrow on one poster might represent a career’s work. A paper distributed

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