Bioinformatics and AVATAR
Do you remember the modeled characters in AVATAR ? The movie was not science-fiction shoot in a cheap studio. The characters were actual living chracters in silico, in the computer. Human or MA-VI characters were modeled and computers calculated every single move in real-time. This is the digital technology of today.
Imagine, with the ever growing computational power, every single DNA base of your genetic material and every single amino-acid of your flesh and bone is modeled and computers calculate every move of your genes, your muscles, your sperms.
That may sound science-fiction to some of you, but we are nor far away from this scene.
The following abstract summarizes what is done by the bioinformatics teams associated with Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw.
"Our main focus is on the prediction of the structure and function of the proteins (Ginalski, Kolinski and Bujnicki), analysis of the high througput data (Komorowski), application of the machine learning to biological systems (Komorowski, Rudnicki), modelling of molecular machines (Trylska) as well as development of algorithms for sequence analysis (Rudnicki, Bala) and applications of grid technology (Bala)."
1. The prediction of the structure and function of the proteins.
2. Application of the machine learning to biological systems.
3. Modelling of molecular machines.
4. Development of algorithms for sequence analysis.
5. Applications of grid technology.
The applications of bioinformatics are pretty broad and unlimited.
As Ying W. J Malmsteen used to sang:
" There is a long way to go.
Future will show.
The road is leading "in computers"
