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Nature 447, 39 (3 May 2007) | doi:10.1038/447039a; Published online 2 May 2007
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Postdoctoral Research in Functional Genomics
- Harvard School of Public Health, computer science, biology, bioinformatics,
- Boston, MA
Postdoctoral Fellow - Computational Genomics - Team 78 – Ref: 80464
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
- Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1, UK
Connections The best is yet to come
Mark Buchanan1
- Mark Buchanan is a science writer based in the United Kingdom.
Abstract
Optimality is a key organizing principle of science, but the patterns of connections within real-world networks do not always respect it.
An 'optimal' solution to a problem is, in some sense, the 'best' solution. It's the shortest route to work, or the way of packing oranges that takes up the least volume.
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