Biomathematics: Using Graph Models for High School DIMACS Conference on Linking Mathematics & Biology In High Schools 29 April 2005 L. Charles (Chuck) Biehl The Charter School of Wilmington Wilmington, DE Biomathematics: Using Graph Models
What Are These?
The phylogeny and classification of life as proposed by Haeckel in 1866 Haeckel’s tree
A Possible Evolutionary Phylogenetic Tree
Accugenix Tree Report
A Sample of a Computed Tree Leaves are species – internal vertices minimize differences
Constructing Phylogenetic Trees David E. Joyce, Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science, Clark University Actual Tree (yellow) Distance matrix (pink) Reconstructed tree from mutations (blue)
Epidemic Model: Basic Majority Process Model
Digraph as a State Model for Smallpox (Kaplan-Craft-Wein 2002)
Dynamic Programming for Path Problems A B
Dynamic Programming for String Alignment Image Source: Christopher Lewis, bioinformatics analyst, Saskatoon Research Centre of Agriculture & Agri-food Canada
Voronoi Diagram model for Cell Growth, Mitosis, and Interaction
The Internet (at night)
Protein-Protein Interactions Pathmap ™ Protein-Protein Interaction Data Set for Yeast
Proteome* Interaction Network (*Prote[in] + [Gen]ome)