Bangalore: Microsoft Research and UN scientists are embarked on a highly ambitious project, a computational model of entire ecosystem from soil to weather, reports NBCNEWS.

As per the researchers this comprehensive model will depict whole ecosystem that can be useful for biologist, weather man, city planners, evolutionist, law makers and many others.

Modeling anything from nature is a tedious and complex task, be it the anatomical model of humans or model of genome, since every intricate details have to be included, viz. running of nerves throughout the body to amino acid and base sequences alignment in double helix model.

In such a case, this project shows some gargantuan complexity, but Drew Purves at Microsoft Research in Cambridge thinks the time has come for what the company describes as a General Ecosystem Model (GEM) — capable of simulating just about any ecosystem in the world.

Purves announced his team’s ambition in an article he wrote for the Nature, and sought others help too in realizing this project. They've already created a prototype, called the Madingley Model, which easily is more ambitious than anything else currently.

"There are a huge number of ecological and environmental models, but in our opinion, nothing that is yet as comprehensive as a GEM would be," Purves told NBC News in an emailed statement.

There already are models of some part of ocean or some specific type of forest, but they can’t be adopted easily. Purves says he wants to make a model that can be applied anywhere easily with just correct parameters.

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