Once upon a time, a little girl arrives in an enchanted land named Bio-land. Her name is Alice. Are you curious about her? Take a look at this: Alice in “Bio-Land”: Engineering Challenges in the World of Life Sciences (Benso et al., IT Professional, vol. 16, July-Aug. 2014). By the way, since her arrival, the fascination for that strange place and the creatures living there grows second after second. But she finds herself unable to comprehend fully neither the very nature of the phenomena taking place, nor the way the biologists, a species of local creatures, are studying such events. Thus, she desires to learn the peculiar language they use to codify and share their results. But the little girl keeps finding herself in situations very difficult to understand using her way of thinking. Everything seems to work exactly backwards respect to her expectations. If Alice had the opportunity to tell her story, she would begin saying that she is trying hard to exploit and value her engineering skills for figuring out how things function there, but nobody seems to understand or appreciate. Biologists seem busy trying to make sense of very little pieces of the land all the time. […]
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