title: Path to bio-nano-information fusion.
abstract: This article will discuss the challenges in a new convergent discipline created by the fusion of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and information technology. To illustrate the research challenges, we will begin with an introduction to the nanometer-scale environment in which biology resides, and point out the many important behaviors of matters at that scale. Then we will describe an ideal model system, the cell, for bio-nano-information fusion. Our efforts in advancing this field at the Institute of Cell Mimetic Space Exploration (CMISE) will be introduced here as an example to move toward achieving this goal.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
authors.forename: Jia Ming
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Chih-Ming
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Ho
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000639:trends*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000639:trends*