Applying Biological Complexity at Scale
Abstract
Applying Biological Complexity at Scale will pursue new insights derived from biological complexity and living-system dynamics to develop applications to enhance global-scale stability, transform hostile environments, and ensure human well-being. Biological systems operate over an enormous range of spatial, physical, and temporal scales and span individual cells to multi-organism systems. Enhanced understanding of the basic processes associated with biological network interactions and communication will enable novel approaches and technology development to enhance national security, ranging from infectious disease mitigation or prevention, to predicting and leveraging behavior of microbial populations or even distributed human networks. Key advances expected from this research will include the identification of stable, scalable features and mechanisms of biological networks. Such information will allow the determination of a bio-system's state and enable the prediction of state, as well as where there are inflection points that can either be exploited, or that must be preserved in order to maintain equilibrium (e.g., microbial community dynamics and their applications).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- d903a618d7a7c9466328372de1883eba