While most of the discussions here revolve around the modeling and ML parts of this competition, I had a slightly off-topic and more general question about this competition and our aim. In the competition overview, the hosts write, \"Without being able to understand how RNA molecules fold, we are missing a deeper understanding of how nature works, how life began, and how we can design better medicines and biological approaches to grand problems like climate change\". While I get the medicinal applications of our work here, how can understanding RNA folding help solve macro-problems like climate change? Are they referring to the fact that the modeling approaches shown here can be applied to other problems (climate change) or that RNA folding and climate change are somehow connected?
", "messages": [ { "id": "2537225", "postDate": "11/24/2023 23:08:24", "content": "While most of the discussions here revolve around the modeling and ML parts of this competition, I had a slightly off-topic and more general question about this competition and our aim. In the competition overview, the hosts write, \"Without being able to understand how RNA molecules fold, we are missing a deeper understanding of how nature works, how life began, and how we can design better medicines and biological approaches to grand problems like climate change\". While I get the medicinal applications of our work here, how can understanding RNA folding help solve macro-problems like climate change? Are they referring to the fact that the modeling approaches shown here can be applied to other problems (climate change) or that RNA folding and climate change are somehow connected?
", "rawMarkdown": "While most of the discussions here revolve around the modeling and ML parts of this competition, I had a slightly off-topic and more general question about this competition and our aim. In the competition overview, the hosts write, \"Without being able to understand how RNA molecules fold, we are missing a deeper understanding of how nature works, how life began, and how we can design better medicines and **biological approaches to grand problems like climate change**\". While I get the medicinal applications of our work here, how can understanding RNA folding help solve macro-problems like climate change? Are they referring to the fact that the modeling *approaches* shown here can be applied to other problems (climate change) or that RNA folding and climate change are somehow connected?", "votes": null }, { "id": "2537485", "postDate": "11/25/2023 07:43:12", "content": "see Role of RNA folding plays in climate change
", "rawMarkdown": "see [Role of RNA folding plays in climate change ](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/stanford-ribonanza-rna-folding/discussion/448946)", "votes": null }, { "id": "2537972", "postDate": "11/25/2023 16:32:05", "content": "Oh, I didn't see that. Thanks!
", "rawMarkdown": "Oh, I didn't see that. Thanks!", "votes": null }, { "id": "2550261", "postDate": "12/06/2023 00:04:11", "content": "RNA can be used to engineer enzymes that can break down plant biomass into biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel. This could help to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, which are a major contributor to climate change.
", "rawMarkdown": "RNA can be used to engineer enzymes that can break down plant biomass into biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel. This could help to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, which are a major contributor to climate change.", "votes": null } ], "comments": [ { "id": 2537485, "author_name": "something4kag", "author_url": "", "post_date": "11/25/2023 07:43:12", "content": "see Role of RNA folding plays in climate change
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 2537972, "author_name": "alberteinsten", "author_url": "", "post_date": "11/25/2023 16:32:05", "content": "Oh, I didn't see that. Thanks!
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 2550261, "author_name": "anilyagiz", "author_url": "", "post_date": "12/06/2023 00:04:11", "content": "RNA can be used to engineer enzymes that can break down plant biomass into biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel. This could help to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, which are a major contributor to climate change.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ], "raw_markdown_by_id": { "2537225": "While most of the discussions here revolve around the modeling and ML parts of this competition, I had a slightly off-topic and more general question about this competition and our aim. In the competition overview, the hosts write, \"Without being able to understand how RNA molecules fold, we are missing a deeper understanding of how nature works, how life began, and how we can design better medicines and **biological approaches to grand problems like climate change**\". While I get the medicinal applications of our work here, how can understanding RNA folding help solve macro-problems like climate change? Are they referring to the fact that the modeling *approaches* shown here can be applied to other problems (climate change) or that RNA folding and climate change are somehow connected?", "2537485": "see [Role of RNA folding plays in climate change ](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/stanford-ribonanza-rna-folding/discussion/448946)", "2537972": "Oh, I didn't see that. Thanks!", "2550261": "RNA can be used to engineer enzymes that can break down plant biomass into biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel. This could help to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, which are a major contributor to climate change." }, "source": "meta" }