# Digital Biology **Entity class:** Scientific field **Domain:** Computation / Biology **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Digital biology treats biological measurements, models, simulations, and programmable interventions as an integrated computational discipline. ## Mechanism and significance Its promise is not that living systems become simple software, but that enough of their state and response can become addressable for prediction, design, and iterative experimentation. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Computational Biology and Virtual Cells|Computational Biology and Virtual Cells]] - **Primary fields:** [[AI-Driven Biology]] · [[Cellular Digital Twins]] · [[Computational Biology]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Massive Cellular Perturbation Study]] · [[Single-Cell Perturbation Data]] · [[Bioinformatics]] · [[Programmable Biology]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.