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data and sequence), made effi cient—is the kind of biology required to
make bioinformatic knowledge. “Lean biology” is a mode of practice
that is designed to harness the productivity of samples, workers, and
computers—to maximize the production of data and knowledge by
ignoring or stripping or abstracting away all functions extraneous to
the generation of these products.
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In doing so, it creates new kinds of
biological knowledge that are rooted in the practices of industrial man-
agement and in informatics. Lean biology—the sets of practices that
produce bioinformatic knowledge—is a way not only of describing this
trend, but also of suggesting how it is coupled to the commoditization
of life in the age of biotechnology and biocapital.
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