Re:Detailed simulation of complete minimal cellular life
by Animats on Saturday February 26, 2022 @02:31AM
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That sounds good. So single-cell simulation needs only a modest level of hardware. When simulation progresses to multicellular organisms, inter-cell connections can probably be done less frequently, over a network. C. Elegans, the nematode worm that's the minimum viable heavily studied organism, has 959 cells. A thousand GPUs is not an out of reach number. Just a big cloud bill.
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Re:Detailed simulation of complete minimal cellular life
by _Nat_ on Saturday February 26, 2022 @02:52AM
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I really enjoyed the paper, though I'd probably characterize it as primarily academic.
This paper's got a ton of background research that's gathered up a lot of relevant data and models. The computational-results are nice, too, in providing a perspective on simulation-costs.
Once there're viable cell-simulations, we can do stuff like have computers predict, say, medicines by just simulating random molecules and optimizing them for desired-effect. A really powerful tool to look forward to!