Bioinformatics and the Metaverse: Are We Ready?

Stephen Taylor; Shamit Soneji; Shamit Soneji

doi:10.3389/fbinf.2022.863676

Frontiers in Bioinformatics (May 2022)

Bioinformatics and the Metaverse: Are We Ready?

Stephen Taylor,
Shamit Soneji,
Shamit Soneji

Affiliations

Stephen Taylor: Analysis, Visualization and Informatics Group, MRC Weatherall Institute of Computational Biology, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, United Kingdom
Shamit Soneji: Division of Molecular Hematology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, BMC, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Shamit Soneji: Lund Stem Cell Center, Faculty of Medicine, BMC, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fbinf.2022.863676
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2

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COVID-19 forced humanity to think about new ways of working globally without physically being present with other people, and eXtended Reality (XR) systems (defined as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality) offer a potentially elegant solution. Previously seen as mainly for gaming, commercial and research institutions are investigating XR solutions to solve real world problems from training, simulation, mental health, data analysis, and studying disease progression. More recently large corporations such as Microsoft and Meta have announced they are developing the Metaverse as a new paradigm to interact with the digital world. This article will look at how visualization can leverage the Metaverse in bioinformatics research, the pros and cons of this technology, and what the future may hold.

Published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics

ISSN: 2673-7647 (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General): Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
Website: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/bioinformatics

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