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One can think of new technologies such as the nanocellulose computer chip, so that one

can also control molecules individually here (especially via light-controlled protein

domains, i.e., LOV or BLUF domains). Modern biology will be crucial in order not to

have a technical proliferation here, but to create a stable, resilient and environmentally

compatible new technology as a real basis of life for our civilisation.

However, it is also a general development in biology to use bioinformatics and large

amounts of data to understand the cell more and more like an “Internet of Things”. This

includes the fact that modern methods allow us to know much better where each molecule

is (e.g., with super resolution light microscopy) and that we can then really control a pro­

cess (synthetic biology, protein design, nano factories, nano printers, etc.). The same

“Internet of Things” (In Silico Knowledge of Where Each Thing Is Located)

Technical examples

Industry 4.0:

https://www.plattform-­i40.de/I40/Navigation/DE/Home/home.html

Smart City:

https://www.bioinfo.biozentrum.uni-­wuerzburg.de/teaching/smart_city/

https://www.smart-­cities.eu

Smart Traffic:

https://www.izeus.de/projekt/smart-­traffic.html

Bioinformatics Examples

Gene Ontology:

https://www.geneontology.org

GoSynthetic Database:

https://gosyn.bioapps.biozentrum.uni-­wuerzburg.de/index.php

DrumPID Database:

https://drumpid.bioapps.biozentrum.uni-­wuerzburg.de

MIT BioBricks:

https://web.mit.edu/jagoler/www/biojade/biobricks.html

iGEM Parts:

https://igem.org/Main_Page

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