I think that GP means biologists. Biologists may not be experts on obelisks, but they have the base knowledge to understand many of the mechanisms and concepts.

I understood as much. My point is that it's not clear to me that it will be a biologist, and not a statistician/mathematician, or developer/data-scientist that will be the one to sufficiently find the solution. There are literally petabytes of public data which already hold the answer. We now have to accept a different paradigm by which we can do biology, and biologists are not always the best equipped for this paradigm.

@ababaian. You may want to put your contact info in your bio here, based on your comments and responses. It may be helpful for others to find you an contact you if they ever see anything. Check if they're not seeing ghosts in the data

That is extraordinarily insightful, thank you.

Maybe I will give this a crack. If I get anywhere I'll contact a local university to speak to a biologist.

Thank you.

It will almost certainly someone who already has a solid grasp of biochemistry, even if they're not a credentialed biologist. I don't generally believe progress can be made in a field with literally no knowledge of the base-level details. That's how you get physicists and MBAs thinking they can tell everyone how to do their jobs.