Empowering 21st century biology

Robinson, GE

Banks, JA

Padilla, DK

Burggren, WW

Cohen, CS

Delwiche, CF

Funk, V

Hoekstra, HE

Jarvis, ED

Johnson, L

Martindale, MQ

Rio, CMD

Medina, M

Salt, DE

Sinha, S

Specht, C

Strange, K

Strassmann, JE

Swalla, BJ

Tomanek, L

2015-12-19T14:53:55Z

2010-12-01

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.

0006-3568

https://hdl.handle.net/10161/11243

Oxford University Press (OUP)

BioScience

10.1525/bio.2010.60.11.8

Empowering 21st century biology

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Basic Science Departments

Duke

Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

Institutes and Provost's Academic Units

Neurobiology

School of Medicine

University Institutes and Centers

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