Converge Development of Biotechnology and Information Technology

Subjects: Other Disciplines >> Synthetic discipline submitted time 2023-03-28 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》

刘晓 王跃 毛开云 范月蕾 陶诚 陈大明

Abstract： Life is an open information system that is self-replicating, adaptive, and self-organizing. The collection, processing, storage, integration, and analysis of biological information based on modern information technology (IT) propel life science research into the Fourth Paradigm of “Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery”, which definitely will make biotechnology (BT) toward a quantitative, computable, controllable, and predictable direction. Meanwhile, from the expression and regulation of genes to the information exchange and processing of neurons, information processing in organisms has infinitely inspired the development of information technology. From this perspective, the convergent development approach of BT and IT has its own essences in discipline connotation, laws of engineering development, demands of our time and society, and has brought about the ever-changing research paradigm, the ever-increasing innovation and breakthrough, and the increasingly extensive application scenarios. So in this way, it is of great significance to seize the commanding heights of both technology and industry competition.

 Hits 760  Downloads 323  Comment 0