350

Question 15.6

OMIM stands for Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Go to the website (https://www.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim) and search for “alcoholism” and “schizophrenia”.

20.16 Bioinformatics Connects Life with the Universe and all

the Rest

Question 16.1

You can find the digital manifesto online here: https://www.spektrum.de/news/wie-­

algorithmen-­und-big-data-unsere-zukunft-bestimmen/1375933;

https://www.spektrum.

de/thema/das-­digital-­manifest-­algorithmen-­und-­big-­data-­bestimmen-

unsere-­zukunft/1375924.

Question 16.2

Here is a brief explanation of global warming: https://www.climatehotmap.org/about/

global-­warming-­causes.html.

Question 16.3

Here you can find the Doomsday Clock (the clock of “doom”, i.e. how close people are to

catastrophe), but is of course a bit exaggerated here to get people to act. Easily found at:

https://thebulletin.org/timeline. Doomsday here refers to the general demise of humanity,

quickly by nuclear weapons, slowly by global warming. Two years (2018, 2019) the situ­

ation was again so volatile that the clock was at 3–12 min. But in 2020 the clock switched

to only 100 s before midnight – it’s really time to act.

Question 16.4

Here’s Plan B, a particularly carefully crafted plan (Version B 4.0) for sustainability and

rebuilding our environment, promoted by the Earth Watch Institute: https://www.earth-­

policy.org/books/pb4.

Question 16.5

Here is some information on Plan C: Sustainable, highly resilient and adaptable technolo­

gies that can help us stay strong in an emergency. A recent result is the coupling of

enhanced CO2 fixation in plants together with an alternative pathway that minimizes CO2

losses through light respiration: This would allow us to be 5 times better at removing CO2

from the air while making plants more productive [6] (Naseem et al. 2020).

Other examples:

20  Solutions to the Exercises