Seeds, known as agricultural "chips", are an important bargaining chip to ensure national food security. It is spring planting right now, and many farmers are worried about the pests and diseases of their early rice. However, in recent years, more and more intelligent technologies have been applied to the agricultural field. While bringing changes to the lives of ordinary people, intelligent technologies are also blooming everywhere.
Smart breeding, mobile APP fertilization and watering, Internet of Things monitoring and management, agricultural product quality traceability... Today, smart technology has covered the whole process of a vegetable seedling from germination to growth to fruiting, and even when it is delivered to people's dining tables, it can be traced back. to its growth trajectory.
Smart agriculture is hot right now.
Recently, Changsha Biocloud Data Technology Co., Ltd. announced that it has obtained tens of millions of RMB Pre-A round of financing, led by Heyu Capital and followed by Kaitai Capital. Prior to this, BAIOO Cloud received angel round financing from Luye Investment and other institutions.
It is reported that this round of financing will be mainly used to improve the functions of the BAIOO Cloud intelligent breeding platform, create a case of applying big data technology to agricultural breeding, and further develop domestic and foreign markets.
Changsha Biocloud Data Technology Co., Ltd. is a new agricultural high-tech start-up company founded by overseas high-level talents. It was registered and established in Changsha High-tech Development Zone in January 2018.
The founder has worked in international and domestic first-class agricultural companies for many years, and has rich experience in research and development management in the field of bioinformatics and plant breeding.
The team's professional skills cover many fields such as bioinformatics, statistical analysis, data management, software development, genetic breeding, molecular biology, machine learning and image recognition. It is a new force composed of experts in agriculture, biology and IT.
With the application of high-throughput automation technology, breeding will generate a large amount of phenotypic and genotypic data, and future breeding decisions will rely more and more on data analysis and less on experience. The management of breeding data will become a new infrastructure project for Chinese seed companies, and the ability to analyze and mine data will become the core competitiveness of breeding.
Based on the cutting-edge field of breeding, BAIOO Cloud launched a breeding phenotype data system in 2018, and launched a WeChat-based field collection mini-program BAIOO eCai in 2019; on July 17, it officially released a new genotype big data system and upgraded it Phenotype data analysis system and Bio-e mining. The data connection between the three products has formed a set of BAIOO Cloud intelligent breeding platform that integrates breeding data collection, management and calculation.
With the rapid development of high-throughput phenotyping technology and high-throughput genotyping technology, the collection, processing, analysis and statistics, visualization and final application of massive data in the breeding decision-making process have become a sign of the times. We have ushered in the era of big data.
Thousands of breeding materials, each with tens of thousands of genotype loci, are tens of millions to hundreds of millions of data. Not only Excel cannot handle it, but the commonly used relational database is also difficult to control. Modern commercial breeding is difficult to achieve without an advanced breeding data management system.
The genotype data management module in the Biocloud intelligent breeding system adopts a distributed database architecture, which can easily manage and visualize genotype data.
Biocloud's breeding software series products have been used in dozens of breeding enterprises and scientific research units such as Longping Hi-Tech, Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center, and Hebei Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The BIOCloud intelligent breeding platform integrates breeding data collection and management with analysis of genotype and phenotype data, and has taken a solid step on the road of intelligent breeding.
At present, artificial intelligence has facilitated and influenced many aspects of human life, and the technology is becoming more and more mature. Artificial intelligence needs to find some application scenarios to play a role. The agricultural field provides a broad platform.
The new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation are advancing by leaps and bounds. Whether it is breeding or planting in the future, it will continue to move towards digitalization and intelligence. Agricultural production will gradually get out of the dilemma of relying on the weather. Biological breeding has accelerated into the 4.0 era of deep cross-integration of biotechnology, information technology and artificial intelligence technology.
Through intelligent breeding, it can help the precise implementation of efficient agriculture, let the promotion of agricultural technology be plugged with the wings of information technology, and let the majority of farmers take the express train of "Internet +".
Article source: New Industry Insights