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The State of Computer Application in the Life Sciences
The State of Computer Application in the Life Sciences
Pages 388-401
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Approximately one in three life scientists computes, and the total cost of their computing is in excess of $18 million a year. Unless otherwise specified, all data concerning the state of computing in the life sciences come from the census of individual life scientists conducted by the Committee and reflect use in academic year 1966-1967.
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The two-decade head start in the physical sciences still remains. In any case, we can be sure that biologists are doing large amounts of computing, and the life sciences are no longer to be viewed as "computationally undeveloped country." As would have been anticipated, actual computer use is very unevenly distributed.
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(Source: Survey of Individual Life Scientists, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Research in the Life Sciences.
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This description of functional types of computer use, based on answers to our questionnaire, is rather abstract and fails to describe the remarkable diversity of computer use in the life sciences. Only a few uses can be noted here.
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(Source: Survey of Individual Life Scientists, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Research in the Life Sciences.)
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As consumers or computing power, all subareas of the life sciences appear much the same. The deviations among areas do not appear to have any meaning.*
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400 FIGURE 43 Number of computing scientists versus hours of computing, by field. (Source: Survey of Individual Life Scientists, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Research in the Life Sciences.)
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ALL AGES 100 100 ALL AGES 100100 100100 <30 4 3 30-39 39 39 ~ 30 14 31 40-49 37 38 30-39 3741 3637 50-59 16 17 40-49 4139 4340 > 60 4 3 50-59 1614 1715 >60 52 17 Source: Survey of Individual Life Scientists, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Research in the Life Sciences. Source: Survey of Individual Life Scientists, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Research in the Life Sciences.
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Extrapolation of the data to 100 percent participation indicates that about 30 percent of the users commenced computing within the last five years. This is equivalent to an approximate annual growth rate for computing participation of 6 percent.
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(Source: Survey of Individual Life Scientists, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Research in the Life Sciences.
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Overall, 42 percent of the support came from research grants to individual scientists; 29 percent from federal funds specifically allocated for life sciences computing, 9 percent from non-lifesciences funds (e.g., a university's own computing budget) , 11 percent from other funds (e.g., state life sciences funds)
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