Empowering 21st Century Biology
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Several lists of grand challenges in biology have been published recently, highlighting the strong need to answer fundamental questions about how life evolves and is governed, and how to apply this knowledge to solve the pressing problems of our times. To succeed in addressing the challenges of 21st century biology, scientists need to generate, have access to, interpret, and archive more information than ever before. But for many important questions in biology, progress is stymied by a lack of essential tools. Discovering and developing necessary tools requires new technologies, applications of existing technologies, software, model organisms, and social structures. Such new social structures will promote tool building, tool sharing, research collaboration, and interdisciplinary training. Here we identify examples of the some of the most important needs for addressing critical questions in biology and making important advances in the near future. © 2010 by American Institute of Biological Sciences. All rights reserved.
Source: BioScience
Authors: Gene E. Robinson, Jody A. Banks, Dianna K. Padilla, Warren W. Burggren, C. Sarah Cohen, Charles F. Delwiche, Vicki Funk, Hopi E. Hoekstra, Erich D. Jarvis, Loretta Johnson, Mark Q. Martindale, Carlos Martinez del Rio, Monica Medina, David E. Salt, Saurabh Sinha, Chelsea Specht, Kevin Strange, Joan E. Strassmann, Billie J. Swalla, Lars Tomanek
Institutions: Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Stony Brook University, University of North Texas, San Francisco State University, University of Maryland, College Park, Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University, Duke University, Kansas State University, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University of Wyoming, Purdue University West Lafayette, University of California, Berkeley, Vanderbilt University, Rice University, University of Washington, California Polytechnic State University
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W2023028646