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Computing in the Life Sciences Stephen Emmott Microsoft Research Cambridge
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Context:
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‘New kinds’ of science
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What we are doing:
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Inventing and building new kinds of tools pioneering new kinds of science
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Integrate theoretical, experimental, computational science
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1:Revolutionising biological modelling
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Codification of biology: 4 letters [genome] > 20 letters +3D position [proteome] > networks [pathways] > processes [e.g. immune system]
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Process calculi: -calculus: Tool=SPiM
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Compositionality, parallelism, abstraction: a language for programming biology
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P-system models, beta-binders [apoptosis]
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Artificial biochemistry > library of gene gates > artificial complex biological systems: Enabling new kind of in-silico biology
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2:Advancing immunology
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MHC Antigen presentation
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3:Understanding Earth’s life Support System
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Integrating climate models, oceanography, biodiversity science, theoretical ecology
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[Building blocks of] New kinds of computing:
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Lessons from Nature: biochemistry, proteins, immunology, morphogenesis...
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Other / New projects:
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MToR, Food-webs, Highly novel bio-energetic models, Molecular computing:‘informed matter’
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Conclusions: just beginning, exciting times
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semmott@microsoft.com
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