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UW-CSE Colloq / 2-10-2000 / Hood / Institute for Systems Biology / Institute for Systems Biology and Frontiers in Computational Biology

 

*NOTE* This lecture will be broadcast live via the Internet. See

http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/colloq.info.html for more information.

 

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Seattle, Washington 98195

 

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Box 352350

(206) 543-1695

 

COLLOQUIUM

 

SPEAKER:      Lee Hood, Institute for Systems Biology

 

TITLE:          The Institute for Systems Biology and Frontiers in

                        Computational Biology

 

DATE:           Thursday, February 10, 2000

 

TIME:           3:30 pm

 

PLACE:                   134 Sieg Hall

 

HOST:           Ed Lazowska

 

ABSTRACT:

 

Biology is now being viewed as an informational science.  There are a

multiplicity of hierarchial levels of biological information:

 

* the one-dimensional (digital) information of the four-letter alphabet of

DNA (chromosomes) and messenger RNA (transcribed gene sequences);

 

* the three-dimensional information of proteins as the molecular machines

of the body; and

 

* the four-dimensional (time variant) information of complex biological

systems and networks with their systems or emergent properties.

 

The Institute for Systems Biology emerged from the conviction that systems

biology will be the major focus in biology and medicine in the 21st

century and that cross-disciplinary partnerships (biologists, chemists,

computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and physicists) are

essential for realizing the potential of this new view.

 

I will discuss the fundamental paradigm changes, in part, catalyzed by the

Human Genome Project that lead to this view of systems biology.  I will

also discuss some of the myriad of opportunities for collaborations in

computational biology between biologists and computer scientists -- in the

context of the Institute for Systems Biology -- one whose major mission is

to catalyze cross-disciplinary partnerships.

 

Refreshments to follow.

 

Email: talk-info@cs.washington.edu

Info: http://www.cs.washington.edu