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What are the applications of functional analysis to computational biology?
That's interesting. Can you give me an example of how functional analysis has been used in this way?
Sure. One example is the analysis of the gene regulatory network involved in the development of the fruit fly embryo. Using functional analysis techniques, researchers were able to identify the key regulatory genes involved in the process, and to construct a model that accurately predicted the behavior of the network in different situations.