Biological and Software programming

Software programming is done by encoding zeroes and ones on microchips while biological programming is done by encoding the DNA of cells using A, G, T and C which are the building blocks of DNA. The next major technological revolution will not include computer software but will be biological software. DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created. Our ability to engineer biology will solve major world problems such as the spread of disease, world hunger and climate change. The use of biological computation has the potential to transform medicine, agriculture and energy. Biological apps are being created to put the gene for a perfume scent from a plant into yeast. Hence, the perfume is produced from fermentation of the yeast instead of using plant extracts. Engineering biology will speed up the development of synthetic solutions to old problems. Some problems include manufacturing biofuels, engineering solar cells similar to how plants carry out photosynthesis or engineering viruses to act as biopesticides.

Medical Laboratories will be using genetic compilers in the future that make biological programming as safe and robust as traditional software programming.