The synergy of biology, intelligent systems, and space exploration

Abstract

The authors discuss some of the ways that intelligent systems are advancing the understanding of human and other genomes as well as the molecular regulatory mechanisms for gene expression. They also extrapolate and speculate on space applications that could result from this new understanding of biology, in such areas as human spaceflight (including space medicine and life support systems), NASA's search for life elsewhere (astrobiology), and robotic spaceflight (biofabrication and in situ assembly).