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Overcoming the Limits of Quantification by Visualization

机译：通过可视化克服量化极限

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Biological sciences have strived to adopt the conceptual framework of physics and have become increasingly quantitatively priented, aiming to refute the assertion that biology appears unquantifiable, unpredictable, and messy. But despite all effort, biology is characterized by a paucity of quantitative statements with universal applications. Nonetheless, many biological disciplines—most notably molecular biology—have experienced an ascendancy over the last 50 years. The underlying core concepts andideas permeate and inform many neighboring disciplines. This surprising success is probably not so much attributable to mathematical and statistical approaches in molecular biology, but rather to the preponderance of qualitative approaches, especially visualization. Visualizations can be afforded by quantitative research, but usually they rely on both, quantitative and qualitative research. I claim the following three features to be responsible for the unceasing zeal for using visualizations: (1) visual representations facilitate reasoning, (2) images can be cognitively processed in a "fast" manner, and (3) abstractions of visual representations prompt conceptual advances. In summary, visualizations have largely contributed to the success of molecularbiology by conveying its concepts to other disciplines, and at the same time, eclipsing mere quantitative approaches. However, visualizations also bear the risk of misinterpretation when traversing neighboring disciplines and even more so when pervadingnonscientific domains.
机译：生物科学一直努力采用物理学的概念框架，并且在数量上越来越受到重视，旨在驳斥生物学似乎不可量化，不可预测和混乱的观点。但是，尽管付出了所有努力，但生物学的特点是定量陈述缺乏普遍应用。但是，在过去的50年中，许多生物学学科（尤其是分子生物学）经历了上升。潜在的核心概念和思想渗透并指导了许多相邻学科。这种令人惊讶的成功可能与分子生物学中的数学和统计方法无关，而主要归功于定性方法，尤其是可视化方法。可视化可以通过定量研究来提供，但是通常它们依赖于定量和定性研究。我声称以下三个特征是导致使用可视化的热情高涨的原因：（1）视觉表示有助于推理;（2）图像可以以“快速”方式进行认知处理;（3）视觉表示的抽象提示概念进步。总之，可视化通过将分子生物学的概念传达给其他学科，同时也超越了定量方法，为分子生物学的成功做出了巨大贡献。但是，可视化在遍历相邻学科时也存在误解的风险，在遍及非科学领域时更是如此。

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