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Building the Foundation of the Bioeconomy: Biological Data as Critical Infrastructure – KC BioHub

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The United States has spent the better part of the last decade building out a national strategy for the bioeconomy. Federal investment has flowed into biomanufacturing capacity, biotechnology research and development, advanced therapeutics, agricultural innovation, and regional innovation ecosystems. These efforts have helped establish biotechnology as a domain of economic competition and national security, reinforced by the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology and a growing recognition across agencies that biological capability is strategically important. Yet despite this momentum, one of the most important foundations of the bioeconomy has remained structurally underdeveloped. Biological data is the input layer for nearly every major biotechnology application, but it has not been treated as infrastructure in its own right until now. Genomic sequences, phenotypic data, environmental observations, and biodiversity records are what allow researchers to train models, id

By: Nazish Jeffery The United States has spent the better part of the last decade building out a national strategy for the bioeconomy. Federal investment has flowed into biomanufacturing capacity, biotechnology research and development, advanced therapeutics, agricultural innovation, and regional innovation ecosystems. These efforts have helped establish biotechnology as a domain of economic competition and national security, reinforced by the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology and a growing recognition across agencies that biological capability is strategically…

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