Researchers led by Bartosz A. Grzybowski of the Korean Institute for Basic Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences used a blockchain-based platform called Golem to distribute calculations among hundreds of computers around the world.
This approach allowed them to simulate more than 4 billion chemical reactions, many more than previously possible with conventional supercomputers.
The resulting network, called NOEL (Early Life Network), contains some of the basic building blocks of life, including glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and amino acid synthesis.
Interestingly, the researchers found that only a small fraction of these reactions were self-replicating; This suggests that self-replication may have emerged later in the evolution of life.
The study results not only deepen our understanding of early prebiotic chemistry, but also demonstrate the potential of blockchain technology to accelerate scientific research.
Source: Ferra
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