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I think visualizing Linux kernel development can give a little perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iFnzr73XXk

If you view it in a single graph... yes, it seems completely intractable. If you can break it down into subcomponents and track the dependencies, it becomes much more tractable.

⬐ jerven

Difference with the linux kernel one is that this one is rather uncomplete. There are a lot of biological pathways that are just unknown.

⬐ CuriouslyC

The thing with biochemistry is that it is highly connected, and very complex. Molecules aren't just products, they can also bind to gene regulators, or stabilize protein complexes. You can't cleanly separate parts of the system.

⬐ TeMPOraL

This only means we need better tooling and better abstractions to be able to tackle this problem.

⬐ cellis

Reminds me of a talk by Andrew Endy[1], a long time ago, about synthetic biology. The essence is that his vision is to create "building blocks" of bio that have standard interfaces so you can then "code" them instead of untangling this spaghetti of life.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJFqqxxtbRY

You might be interested in Gource then, it visualizes a repo in a very similar manner, but animates along the commit timeline.

Here's a recording of the linux repo being parsed by gource. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iFnzr73XXk