Biogeometry

[emanaly]

Hi All,
Is there a real science called Biogeometry?

[Pythagorean]

yes, there's a legitimate biogeometry (study of the shapes of species, pretty much). But there's also "sacred geometry" which makes use (abuse?) of it as well. That might confuse things.

[Evo]

There is a legitimate study being done, not to be mistaken for the Egyptian hand waving stuff.

Biogeometry is an emerging scientific discipline at the interface between
computational geometry, biochemistry and biophysics, statistics, and chemistry
that brings together specialists in the above disciplines to develop new
computational techniques and paradigms for representing, storing, searching,
simulating, analyzing, and visualizing biological structures. Biogeometry
embraces ideas from a wide range of areas of computer science and mathematics,
including algorithms, geometry, topology, graphics, robotics, and databases to
address some of the most fundamental biological problems such as structurefunction
relationships for biological molecules.

http://helix-web.stanford.edu/psb05/intro-biogeometry.pdf

[alxm]

I'm allergic to buzzwords. On the other hand, I guess that makes me a pioneer of the brand-new interdisciplinary field of immunolinguistics! :tongue2:

[Pythagorean]

yeah, I've been having trouble with "dynamic", "chaos", and "complex systems" myself...