Intro 1: Last week's take home lessons

9/27/02


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Intro 1: Last week's take home lessons

Intro 2: Today's story, logic & goals Biological side of Computational Biology

Elements

From atoms to (bio)molecules

Purify

Purified history

Intro 2: Today's story, logic & goals Biological side of Computational Biology

"A New Approach To Decoding Life: Systems Biology" Ideker et al 2001

Systems biology critique

Transistors > inverters > registers > binary adders > compilers > application programs

Why?

Grand (& useful) Challenges

Intro 2: Today's story, logic & goals Biological side of Computational Biology

Number of component types (guesses)

From monomers to polymers

Nucleotides

The simplest amino acid component of proteins

20 Amino acids of 280

Intro 2: Today's story, logic & goals Biological side of Computational Biology

Continuity of Life & Central Dogma

"The" Genetic Code

Translation t-,m-,r-RNA

Perl Dogma (EditPlus)

Continuity & Diversity of life

How many living species?

Genetic codes (ncbi)

Translational reprogramming

Intro 2: Today's story, logic & goals Biological side of Computational Biology

Qualitative biological statements (beliefs) and evidence

Gene Ontology (nature of being)

Gene Ontology

Evidence for facts

Direct observation

Sources of Data for BioSystems Modeling:

Signaling PAthway Database SPAD

Dynamic simulation of the human red blood cell metabolic network.

Enzyme Kinetic Expressions

How do enzymes & substrates formally differ?

Continuity of Life & Central Dogma

Intro 2: Today's story, logic & goals Biological side of Computational Biology

Sources of Data for BioSystems Modeling:

Structural Genomics

mRNA expression data

What is functional genomics?

Genomics Attitude

Intro 2: Today's story, logic & goals Biological side of Computational Biology

Mutations and selection

Types of Mutants

Multiplex Competitive Growth Experiments

Growth & decay

Ratio of strains

Intro 2: Today's story, logic & goals Biological side of Computational Biology

Author: George Church

Home Page: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~bphys101/