Great post.
This is exactly what I'm an expert at, I even coined a term in the field [1], :).
Since I started doing this 15 years ago (and I know the field predates me by much), one always has had this feeling that we are so close to a big breakthrough in biological simulation, but at the same time, progress has been kind of "slow". I think the reason for that is because pushing the envelope forward in this field requires mastering three (maybe four) different disciplines, your pick of [Bio, Chem, CS, Math, Physics]. Very few people reach this level of simultaneous understanding of all these pieces.
I'm not trying to gatekeep the field, though, much of the progress here (including many of the papers mentioned in TFA) is work coming from PhD students. Anyone could jump into this, but you really need to sit down and try to make sense of it for a while, years. PhD gives one the perfect opportunity for that.
Anyway, I hope this thing keeps going on forward, it's one of the ultimate goals of Biology and it would be extremely beneficial to the world.
1: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/...
This is exactly what I'm an expert at, I even coined a term in the field [1], :).
Since I started doing this 15 years ago (and I know the field predates me by much), one always has had this feeling that we are so close to a big breakthrough in biological simulation, but at the same time, progress has been kind of "slow". I think the reason for that is because pushing the envelope forward in this field requires mastering three (maybe four) different disciplines, your pick of [Bio, Chem, CS, Math, Physics]. Very few people reach this level of simultaneous understanding of all these pieces.
I'm not trying to gatekeep the field, though, much of the progress here (including many of the papers mentioned in TFA) is work coming from PhD students. Anyone could jump into this, but you really need to sit down and try to make sense of it for a while, years. PhD gives one the perfect opportunity for that.
Anyway, I hope this thing keeps going on forward, it's one of the ultimate goals of Biology and it would be extremely beneficial to the world.
1: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/...