If we could only describe science in a tale, wouldn't that be beautiful?
Well, that is about to happen one way or another. What is the meaning of applying science if one cannot create it. We all know that resources are limited. We all know that research is strictly controlled until now and researchers are bound to their grants and their funds. Will this reality ever change for the biological sciences?
Well, that is about to happen one way or another. What is the meaning of applying science if one cannot create it. We all know that resources are limited. We all know that research is strictly controlled until now and researchers are bound to their grants and their funds. Will this reality ever change for the biological sciences?
One should not forget what happen with computer science. What is still happening outside of institutionalized research, although the major breakthroughs were and still are mainly government funded, there are talented individuals out there who have started revolutionary companies out of the blue and changed peoples lives. The truth is that even theses companies become sooner or later themselves institutions but that is not demising the power that a person with talent and a computer has in the computer science nowadays. Is this revolutionary era in computer science able to give talented individuals in other sciences the ability to change the world if they are not part of a major institution? Can someone win a Nobel prize in Medicine, Chemistry or Physics working from his or hers own apartment while having access to free information though the web? Will the future provide us with virtual laboratories where someone can create virtual experiments in fields like chemistry, physics and why not even Biology and Genetics?
Alan Turing needed British Army resources to build a machine that had less computational power than our mobile phones today. And there are fields today not accessible to human experimental tools that limit our ability to perform scientific experiments that completely answer fundamental questions. So one might even recognize here that there is a necessity for virtualization of the biological organisms in a way that can provide us with the possibility of experimenting on them virtually. Just hit the Run button and continue with troubleshooting, publish the code so others can do the experiment again and again.
Build the code that can produce a virtual version of a cell, an organ or even a hole organism like ourselves, is it really possible? Test the effects of the virtual version of a drug, find out the outcome of a gene therapy or even build and test the appropriate artificial organ based on a virtual version of the recipient.
Can we build a virtual version of the earth or our solar system? Can we monitor our weather based on virtual model of all our natural elements in real time?
Even if these tasks seem difficult the only thing that stands between us and this future is time.
A child from Kenya will build the first virtual version of the mitochondrion and another from Vladivostok will integrate it in a virtual E. Coli only by playing with Python, Matlab and R.
Build the code that can produce a virtual version of a cell, an organ or even a hole organism like ourselves, is it really possible? Test the effects of the virtual version of a drug, find out the outcome of a gene therapy or even build and test the appropriate artificial organ based on a virtual version of the recipient.
Can we build a virtual version of the earth or our solar system? Can we monitor our weather based on virtual model of all our natural elements in real time?
Even if these tasks seem difficult the only thing that stands between us and this future is time.
A child from Kenya will build the first virtual version of the mitochondrion and another from Vladivostok will integrate it in a virtual E. Coli only by playing with Python, Matlab and R.
