As biological data accumulate at larger scales and increase at exponential paces, thanks principally to higher-throughput and lower-cost DNA sequencing technologies, the number of biological databases that have been developed to manage such data deluge is growing at ever-faster rates.
In order to rise to this daunting challenge, global food production needs to be ramped up on a large scale and this needs to happen amid increasing competition for agricultural land and water resources.
Being a member of boards myself and advising companies on these risks for some years, it is clear to me that we need to support this transition on a large scale, to increase awareness and scale-up this change in governance.
In fact, for at least the last 2 decades, the need for more action-oriented research has been recognized – to answer such problems as how to deliver solutions effectively and sustainably at large scale, how to increase demand for and use of existing nutrition services and products, and how to ensure relevance of nutrition research to policy makers and program implementers.
Conservationists and regeneration experts now claim that the National Forest is absolute proof that tree planting on a large scale can increase wealth, change the identity of a place and pay for itself hundreds of times over.
Social interactions displayed a discrete and large scale increase in intolerance as anti-Muslim hate crimes rose to historical highs and never fully returned to pre-9/11 levels.
Despite the fact that its speediness can sometimes make transient expression to be a convenient method for obtaining the product of interest, one of the aims of molecular farming is to develop stable systems to avoid manual inoculation processes that might hinder large-scale production and increase costs.
In this way, they collect and consolidate larger volumes, achieve economies of scale, and increase utilisation of transport solutions.
During the 19th century there was a revival of agriculture: it was the golden age for sugarcane, coffee was grown on a large scale, cotton production increased, and the forests of the south were turned into profitable plantations of cacao.
Thus, the need to perform microRNA identification at such large scale has increased the demand for parallel computing.
