on January 14, 2015 at 2:00 pm
Sylvain Sené, professor at Marseille Fundamental Computing Laboratory, will be the guest speaker at the Biocomputing team seminar on Wednesday 14 January at 2pm in the boardroom of Bât. ext. M3.
Abstract - Computer science and biology have been closely linked since the 1940s through the term model, with ‘computational model’ on the one hand and ‘representational model’ on the other. Historically, the first fundamental model to play a key role at the interface between these two disciplines was that of automata networks, and more specifically Boolean automata networks. The reason for this lies in their simplicity of definition, their high level of abstraction giving them significant modelling capabilities, and their ability to capture most of the complexities and heterogeneities of real systems. This presentation will provide a perspective on the interconnections between computer science and biology, mainly in the context of genetic regulation. This will be done through an overview of Boolean automata networks, explaining why their study is important for furthering our understanding of some of the general laws that govern living systems (provided they exist).
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