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You might have misread my comment. I find it sad that we do not have these models. I am well aware that right now it is not possible. I do blame on pharma howev
by choeger 8y ago
You might have misread my comment. I find it sad that we do not have these models. I am well aware that right now it is not possible. I do blame on pharma however for not putting massive amounts of money into this fundamental research. I did a lot of modeling and simulation and I know that chemistry and molecular biology simulation tools exist. But I never encountered a call for academic contributions to increase performance or supply general numerical or computational techniques. from my pov the civil engineering simulators (using odes,dates, and pdes) where completely separate from the chemistry world (often using odes and daes).
- GlenTheMachine 8y agoI can tell you that there is a not inconsiderable amount of effort going into the computational protein folding problem. I do not know where this funding comes from though. It's just a fundamentally hard problem, and it isn't clear (to me, at least) that it can really be solved. Quantum computing, maybe, but I'm not knowledgeable in that. Short of that, though, it might always turn out to be computationally more efficient to just "build" an analog body. There's no guarantee that we can simulate every physical process at faster than realtime speeds with CPUs. I don't think you're going to find a single line of accounting that says "improve biochemical knowledge of the body for modeling purposes". Essentially, all fundamental research in medicine falls into this bucket.