title: On a Quest for Principles, Big Data in Hand.
abstract: Cell editor Karen Carniol discusses the excitement and challenges of the "big data" era and how quantitative approaches reveal important biological principles with Galit Lahav, Gürol Süel, and Olga Troyanskaya. Annotated excerpts from this conversation are presented below, and the full conversation is available with the article online.
mesh_terms: D001695:Biology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D002468:Cell Physiological Phenomena; D002477:Cells; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends