International Symposium on Molecular Logic and Computational Synthetic Biology
摘要截稿:
全文截稿: 2018-09-25
开会时间: 2018-12-17
会议难度:
CCF分类: 无
会议地点: Santiago, Chile
Overview
Synthetic biology aims at the design of biological systems in a systematic way, a process whose hallmark characteristics closely resemble the composition of software: off-the-shelf parts and devices with standard connections, the usual ingredients for assembling components into increasingly complex systems. Of course, a number of key enabling technologies are specifically biological, for example, DNA sequencing and fabrication. But, on the other hand, there is also a need for new models to cope with the complex and heterogeneous nature of biological systems. In this context, the Symposium starting point is to regard a network of interacting genes and proteins as a dynamic system evolving in time according to fundamental laws of reaction, diffusion and transport. These laws govern how a regulatory network, confronted by any set of stimuli, determines the appropriate response of a cell. The emerging behavioural patterns can be described in precise mathematical terms, combining discrete, continuous and stochastic features, and resorting both to specific or general-purpose analysis and verification techniques. Molecular logic, focussed on computing logical operations on molecules, a fruitful conceptual crossover between chemistry and computation with unsuspected applications, is a possible path in this research map. Actually, this Symposium emerged from a series of in- formal workshops on Molecular Logic which, for the last four years, have brought together researchers from different latitudes and backgrounds.
The new International Symposium aims at harnessing logical and algebraic methods for modelling and verifying systems on the interaction of Nature and Computation, around two main themes:
development of biological computation models and devices
application of new computing paradigms to the design of biological systems.