Chapter 43 Talent for the Development of Biological Computers

The newly established Biology Planning Group has a new office space, because Dean Liao and Yang Zhou are both from Qingbei University, and there are many vacant places in the School of Life Sciences Building of Qingbei University, so the office of the Biology Planning Group is set in the Life Science Experimental Building.

What Yang Zhou didn't expect was that Zhou Guoqiang also added an extra identity to him.

That is the deputy leader of the overall planning team.

The level is quite high, if you really want to calculate it, it is higher than the level of Dean Liao's current graduate school dean.

Because the new team was established, four more directions were finalized, and now the leaders of the other three directions project teams are also working in their respective offices.

Academicians and professors who want to join the four directions frequently go in and out of the four offices.

Naturally, Yang Zhou was also busy, and countless biologists came to him, hoping to join Yang Zhou's team, and Yang Zhou quickly finalized several research groups for medicinal plant research.

Meng Lida from the Yunnan-Guizhou Laboratory was discussing with Yang Zhou, and there was a scientist waiting in the rest area next to him.

Yang Zhou handed a USB flash drive to Meng Lida and said: "This is the analysis and introduction of 315 kinds of cancer plants, their genes are very peculiar, may be the reason for the modification of YZ bacteria, with the current genetic analysis methods, there will be genetic garbled characters, so you only need to study the medicinal properties of plants, to see what is the connection with traditional Chinese medicine, your goal is to find out the 'periodic table' of the human immune system, the experiment is still carried out in your experiment, I will go over to see it when I have time." ”

Meng Lida nodded and promised: "Please rest assured, team leader, I will definitely form a good team to overcome this technical difficulty!" ”

Yang Zhou nodded with a smile, and was about to serve tea to the guests, when he thought of the issue of confidentiality again, and reminded: "Because cancer plants still need to be kept secret, this time the people from the Red Beach Secret Base will send some people to take over the confidentiality of your laboratory, and the information cannot be leaked." ”

"Okay, I promise that only I have the core information, and other scientific researchers must also go through strict review, which we have experience before, such as the Yungui Baiyao project, in fact, we also did research back then, and Yungui Baiyao is a confidential project." Meng Lida explained with a smile.

Yang Zhou knew the situation at this point, the formula of Yungui Baiyao was listed in Guo Jia's secret, and there was something in it.

Yungui Baiyao was developed in 1905 by Qu Huanzhang, a famous doctor in Yunnan and Guizhou, who exclusively mastered its formula and secretly prepared it, which was called "Baibaodan" at that time, and later Dr. Qu's wife dedicated the secret recipe to Guo Jia.

This is actually a kind of Chinese medicine secret recipe medicine.

Yang Zhou said that traditional Chinese medicine plants are the initiators that activate the immune system and cells, and Meng Lida is ready to study the ingredients in Yungui Baiyao in the future to see why Yungui Baiyao has such a significant effect.

In the past, the chemical composition was analyzed from the perspective of Western medicine, but now it can be studied in depth from the perspective proposed by Yang Zhou.

"Then I can rest assured, do a good job in the project planning table, I will approve the funds for you, and also use the project lump sum plan, I only look at the results, I also hope that everyone has more money in their pockets, but the premise is that science and technology progress! I want a big return on my investment! Yang Zhou said with a smile.

Meng Lida nodded solemnly when he heard this, promising that he would not waste funds and would work hard to produce results.

Yang Zhou sent off the guests with tea, and Meng Lida returned to the Yungui Laboratory with excitement.

When an academician of his level travels, he is naturally guarded by security forces, and at the same time, he is also escorting the technical information given by Yang Zhou back to Yungui.

Monlida will also take a trip to Red Beach to pick up replicating spores of 315 cancer plants.

"Sorry to keep you waiting." Yang Zhou said to a middle-aged scholar.

The middle-aged scholar had a big bald head like Yang Zhou, and his face was in his forties, he shook his head and said: "It's not in the way, it's not in the way, Professor Yang is the leader of the group Zhou said, you want me to follow you to do research?" Can I know in advance what exactly I'm going to study? ”

This scholar is the biologist (computer science) talent that Yang Zhou asked Secretary Zhou to help poach people.

Named Luo Zhen, Yang Zhou learned from many sources that whether it is the soybean gene retest plan or the rice gene retest plan, it is this person who is responsible for computer modeling and processing.

Biology is now also inseparable from computer big data.

Google now has a lab that specializes in artificial intelligence for protein analysis.

Through supercomputing calculations, protein structures can be simulated.

Yang Zhou upgraded the system and obtained a biological computer, so he naturally hoped to have the help of scientists in related specialties.

Of course, the preliminary research is not particularly complicated, and Yang Zhou does not want to dismantle the biological computer yet.

"The preliminary work is not difficult, mainly to enter the biological genes studied in various laboratories together, and establish a genetic code model, you can understand that the physical computer originally wrote the system and created a similar work to the C language, but the C language was created from scratch, but the code language we studied is the natural evolution of organisms, and the genetic code written by the invisible hands of nature, how about it is not interested?" Yang Zhou asked solemnly.

When Luo Zhen heard that Yang Zhou's research was actually about the underlying system of the genetic code, he suddenly trembled with excitement.

For a biologist who is proficient in computer programming, he knows all too well what this sentence means.

Does Yang Zhou plan to study biological computers?

In the past, some scientists have proposed the conjecture of biological computers, but because they cannot edit biological genes, they cannot be made at all.

So the later direction of development became quantum computers.

In the field of physics, Huaguo is making good progress, and last year it was reported that the Jiuzhang quantum computer was successful.

A 76-photon quantum computing prototype was successfully built, and it only took 200 seconds to solve the mathematical algorithm Gaussian Boson sampling.

"Professor Yang, can you tell me what the ultimate goal is? Are you planning to make a biocomputer? Luo Zhen asked in a trembling voice.

"Well, it's still early, what we need to do now is to summarize the rules, but biological computers are indeed one of the goals in the future." Yang Zhou nodded.

It's a pity that I can't tell Luo Zhen that the biological computer actually already exists, but it's inconvenient to take it out.

"Okay, I'll do it with you! I only hope that in my lifetime, I can witness the birth of biological computers, in my opinion, biological computers are the future direction! ”

"Too many physical sciences nowadays are actually repeating the capabilities that our biological evolution has already achieved, for example, airplanes are simulating the flight of birds, but birds naturally evolved their flight ability in ancient times, and their energy efficiency is much stronger than ours!"

"And biological evolution, and the evolution of human beings such an advanced species, even if it develops for another 100 years, it will definitely not be able to create a perfect robot like humans! However, as long as we make a breakthrough in biotechnology and have a biological computer, we will be able to transform biological people and vegetative people! Luo Zhen said excitedly.

Yang Zhou wants the help of computer talents, because he wants to improve the genetic database, which should be the basis for the progress of biological science, and he is not very good at it.

With the assistance of talents in this area, Yang Zhou will occasionally take out other genes and use supercomputing to analyze the genetic code.

Strive to find more genetic codes, which can be directly applied to various plants in the future to achieve functional replication.

For example, the starch content of rice is very high, especially glutinous rice, the amylopectin content reaches 98%, amylopectin accounts for 2%, and japonica rice (rice) accounts for 83% and amylose accounts for 17%, which is also compared with the taste of the two, glutinous rice will appear more sticky.

According to the genetic code analysis data, the whole plant production system of glutinous rice can be transplanted to other plants in the future, which can also increase the starch content of other plants.