Prof.dr. B. Mons / quote 3 of 5
Resistance to digital methods
Ever since, approximately half of our research output is still on methodological improvements in biodata mining, disambiguation, and associative reasoning. However, the other half, and growing, is on actual knowledge discovery processes and new biological findings, only later to be confirmed in the laboratory.
However, in case you might think the demonstration of actual in silico knowledge discovery examples would silence the criticism, you are mistaken. In the review process of almost every article we submit, there is minimally one reviewer who writes a variant of the conservative and elitist statement: ‘I cannot accept that the computer is more clever than I am’. That is actually the last thing we suggest. We just demonstrate that the computer is much better than we are in systematically sifting through 22 million articles and thousands of databases.