A New Challenge for Biology: The Millennium Problems Move to Biology
Millennium Problems approach is now a new platform to solve the most basic questions of biology. Millenniumproblems The bio site offers defined critical challenges to work together with AI and computational biology researchers.
The main objectives of this new initiative are:
- Make open and undissolved problems in biology mathematically defined
- Meet researchers, software engineers and AI experts in a common framework
- Provide progress in understanding complex biological systems and modeling
- To produce faster solutions by combining academic and industrial research teams
- Open new ways to implement artificial intelligence in the field of biology
This platform with 24 points in the Hacker News community offers a structured framework to the issues that have been rooted as protein folding, gene editing and evolutional dynamics. Thus, it is aimed to transform abstract theories into concrete solutions.
Such open problem platforms have made rapid progress in science world by encouraging interdisciplinary cooperation. A similar approach to biology represents an important step in terms of computational methods and more effective use of artificial intelligence technologies.