Computational biologists: moving to the driver's seat

Table 1 Shifting roles of computational biologists

	Past	Current
Role in research	Supportive	Driver of research
A feeling for the biology	Computer science-centered	Biology- and computer science-centered
Environment	Isolated	Integrated
Data generation	Constrained	Resourceful
Data exploration	Largely limited to hypothesis testing	Both exploratory and hypothesis testing

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