Acknowledgments
We are grateful to H Fang at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics at Oxford University for valuable comments on an early draft of this editorial.
Financial & competing interests disclosure
D Noble is a member of the Technical Committee of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and President of the Physiome Society. He receives no funding or remuneration from these organizations. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.