1. BIOTestGroup
- introduction
- I am presenting an idea we had this year about a possible new model for the simulation of complex systems
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Alfredo BENSO, Stefano DI CARLO, Gianfranco POLITANO, Alessandro SAVINO, Hafeez UR REHMAN
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Department of Control and Computer Engineering

2. Research topics
The mission of our bioinformatics and systems biology research group is to design, develop, and assess computational models and tools for supporting biological research.
Gene expression profile analysis
Biological networks analysis and simulation
Protein function prediction

3. The team A.Benso (Associate Prof.) E-mail: alfredo.benso@polito.it
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G. Politano (Post Doc.)
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S. Di Carlo(Assistant Prof.)
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A. Savino(Post Doc.)
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H. U Reman (PhD Student)
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4. Main funded research activities

5. Read more at: http://www.mind.polito.it
MIND PROJECT
A PRIN project: “engineering physiologically and pathologically relevant organ Models for the INvestigation of age related Diseases”
Our involvement:
Development of IN-SILICO MODELS of bone and cardiac young and aged tissues regulatory activities to support the study of senescence effects on engineered tissues
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6. i-BIO OSDD
A project funded by Regione Valle d’Aosta for creating research units.
OSDD Research Unit aims at providing an informatic framework based on Cloud technologies to support the creation of open networks able to run industrial-standard pharmaceutical projects at a reduced cost.

7. i-BIO OSDD Our involvement:
Development of tools (to be included in the OSDD framework to support the research) for the analysis of Gene Regulatory Networks dynamics.
Currently the tool is able to
Grow a gene interaction network adding all the necessary regulatory elements (mRNA, miRNA, proteins)
Find the network attractors
Extract the network state space
Compare attractors from similar networks

8. CadProstate
A project in collaboration with the Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment at Candiolo.
Development of CAD (Computer Assisted Diagnosis) tools for the analysis of prostate cancer MRI images.