Not all experimental sciences are laboratory sciences. Laboratory sciences do not perform experiments on things as they are in nature. They are based on the idea of being able to interfere with objects in a laboratory designed to study it, and objects themselves are seldom brought into the biological laboratory without having been manipulated. The seminar raises the question of ‘what is a systems biology laboratory’ while understanding it as having evolved from the molecular biology laboratory. We reflect on more than three decades of experimental laboratory work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology where the last decades have been conducted in collaboration with bioinformaticians now working in the Life Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre. Our analyses and discussions are grounded in a collaborative work mode, driven by different professional interests based in our respective fields of applied philosophy and molecular biology.
Rune Nydal (Thu,) studied this question.