Cloud computing to recreate new agriculture: increasing production with data

With the advance of agricultural modernization, traditional farming methods have long been abandoned, and the large-scale use of modern agricultural machinery such as combine harvester and agricultural automobile is rapidly increasing the yield and quality of crops.

And there is a way to make a huge difference in agricultural production, compared to modern agricultural equipment, which is to sequence the genome of crops on the basis of cloud computing, thereby altering the quality of crops qualitatively. By altering the genes of crops, scientists can produce crops with higher levels of nutrition.

Genome sequencing will lead to a qualitative change in agriculture

Genome sequencing is still a strange word for the general public. In short, by sequencing the genome, we can determine the unknown sequence in the gene, identify the direction and structure of the recombinant gene, locate and identify the gene mutation, and compare it. If the combination of cloud computing and genome sequencing is used in agriculture, scientists can learn about the evolution of crop genes based on the information provided by cloud computing, thus achieving higher yields and quality.

Spiral Genetics is a company that has developed a cloud based genomics algorithm, which is equivalent to providing an information platform through which people can get the data they need.

But Adina Mangubat, co-founder and CEO of Spiral Genetics, told the media that there was far less attention to agricultural genomics than cancer gene therapy.

Price differentials in cost and data analysis spawn new markets

In fact, the cost of genome sequencing is low, but the analysis of genomic sequencing data costs a lot of money. So the gap between low sequencing costs and high analysis prices has created a new market.

Chaim Jalas, manager of genetic counseling at the Center for rare Genetic Diseases in New York, USA, told the media that genome sequencing is actually a very simple job with very low cost, and now an average person's genome sequencing cost is only 1500 dollars, The subsequent analysis of sequencing results, however, would require significant costs, since the recruitment of analysts, the acquisition of analytical equipment and so on was required.

The BBC market research and analysis company has estimated the market by 2016, the average annual market size will reach 4 billion U.S. dollars.

From the current situation, more and more bio-information companies and genetic data analysis consulting companies began to move to the network, the need for data research institutions to provide cloud computing platform for genetic analysis.

Similar to the spiral genetics just mentioned, DNAnexus is also a company dedicated to providing genetic data analysis cloud services on the Internet, and customers can upload their data to DNAnexus's cloud computing platform for analysis and computing.

Provide decision making reference for farmers

In addition to sequencing the genome, cloud computing can do something else in the development of agriculture. For example, provide farmers with some useful data to help them better manage farm work.

Farmeron is such a network data provider that farmers can collect information about their livestock by farmeron, such as eating, health, reproduction, milk production, drug type or drug metering. In the face of such complicated data, farmeron can help farmers to analyze them more quickly.

In Beijing, a company engaged in cloud computing applications has developed the first dairy farm cloud management system in China, providing services such as cloud applications, rangeland data hosting, rangeland Data intelligence analysis, daily data supervision services, information outsourcing and expert intelligence analysis.

Professor Li, chief scientist of the National dairy industry technology system, told the media that the management system based on cloud computing provides an information platform for the development of modern dairy industry, which makes the data in the pasture more accurate, comprehensive and real-time, and the data mining through cloud computing can effectively help managers make decisions.

Now, data information is crucial to the high yield of agriculture, whether it is to improve crop yields and quality, or to provide farmers with decision-making reference, cloud computing will undoubtedly give this area a huge boost.

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