DNA computing in vivo - gene assembly in ciliates
A talk on the fascinating area of DNA Computing by one of the world's leading theoretical computer scientists: Professor Grzegorz Rozenberg was held on the 24 June 2002 at the City West campus of UniSA.
Abstract
DNA computing is an exciting development at the interface of computer science and molecular biology. This novel way of computing takes its paradigms from molecular biology - moreover the hardware for implementing computations consists of biomolecules, it is called bioware. Current research in DNA computing is an example of a flourishing interdisciplinary research where computer scientists and molecular scientists are designing computers of the future.
One branch of this area, DNA Computing in vivo, studies computational processes in living cells. In our lecture we will discuss the computational aspects of DNA processing in ciliates. Ciliates, a very ancient group of organisms, have evolved extraordinary ways of organizing, manipulating, and replicating the DNA.
This is also fascinating from the computational point of view: ciliates perform very elegant computations, and they even use data structures of computer science!
The lecture will be in tutorial style - no previous knowledge of molecular biology is required.
Professor Rozenbergs affiliations
- Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
- Leiden Center for Natural Computing (LCNC)
- Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
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