Information systems cannot be designed nor programmed without prior elicitation of the knowledge they need to know. Representing this knowledge in an explicit form is the main application of a conceptualmodel. By allowing for a minor paradigm shift, one can imagine the human body as an information system; highly complex and built of biological molecules, rather than man-made hardware, but an information system nonetheless. It is this paradigm shift that allows for exciting possibilities. Just as acquiring the source-code of a man-made system allows for post-production modifications and easy software maintenance, the same could very well apply to the human body: essentially, the act of debugging life itself. Acquiring the source-code to the human information system begins with the first step in any information system development: the creation of a comprehensive, correct conceptual model of the human genome.
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Pastor, O., Levin, A. M., Casamayor, J. C., Celma, M., & Kroon, M. (2011). A Conceptual Modeling Approach To Improve Human Genome Understanding. In Handbook of Conceptual Modeling (pp. 517–541). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15865-0_16
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