Jakarta – Chairman of the National Research and Development Agency (BRIN), Laksana Tri Handoko, has actually required greater usage of the digital database mapping Indonesia’s biodiversity for creating items quickly and efficiently.
Throughout a virtual conversation on microbiomes, accessed by ANTARA from Jakarta on Friday, Handoko stated that digitalization is a tool that requires to be used more effectively.
The most basic process that can be carried out via digitalization is recording and storing images, he stated. At the moment, the procedure is still being performed in the spirit of saving biodiversity, consisting of microorganisms, he included.
He said that such a step can be a preliminary action towards digital taxonomy.
In addition, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be utilized to record a cross-sectional picture of specimens, which, in turn, aid the process of restoration, in addition to obtaining genome information, DNA, and protein structure storage in addition to chemical substances from the specimen, Handoko explained.
” These digital information have started to become available and are waiting to be used further, in order for us to create various items based upon our biodiversity in a more speedy and efficient manner,” he included.
That way, he continued, the benefits of Indonesia’s abundant natural deposits can be explored better.
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