Would like to hear what you think are the next problems that need to be solved in biology? Trying to avoid answers like 'protein folding' or 'cancer'. What are the next steps to making the next big leaps to fulling the potential of biology and biotech?
Here's a short list to start this off:
Optical control of gene expression in a bacteria: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20702081
Personal genomics and drug metabolism databases - will help eliminate dangerous or in active prescriptions.
Growth of cloned human tissue for transplantation. no rejection, no donors, no waiting list.
On the topic of future trends w.r.t. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology I came across this "map" on the future of science on
http://newsletters.clearsignals.org/zoom_it/IFTF_SR-1454A_FutureofScience_Map_lg.jpg
It's probably neither comprehensive nor authoritative,
but the following points seem to me the most relevant and realistic ones on the map:
- data intensive science spawns new disciplines
- science becomes gameified
- scientific papers are executable as code
- massively linked data becomes a public utility
- wikipedia of science models is created
- human microbiome is mapped
- organisms become programmable
- epigenetics informs real-time genome tweaking
- new lifeforms created from scratch
- engineered evolution
for more links / background see
http://cistronic.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/a-multiverse-of-exploration/
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