“…Molecular biologists, for example, are partnering with computer scientists and mathematicians (Kuczenski et al , 2005), physicists are finding new uses for models once thought to be nonbiological (Rowlands, 1983), and the process of conducting clinical trials is being challenged by new trends in mathematics and statistics (Couzin, 2004). Moreover, both the successes and the failures of these collaborations can often be traced to their being distributed across several different locations, cultures, institutions, and disciplines (Hastings et al , 2003).…”