Infobiotics (2009/2010)

Learning outcomes

This course provides the basic formal tools for the representation of biological information in discrete terms, the modelling and the algorithmic analysis of cellular and molecular processes.

- Algorithms and bio-algorithms
- PCR and Cross Pairing PCR (XPCR)
- Basic DNA operations
- DNA extraction by XPCR
- DNA recombination by XPCR
- DNA computing, Adleman experiment
- Structure and representation of DNA, trees and graphs
- Strings and nucleotides sequences
- Languages and biological grammars
- Numerical systems and elementary mathematical notions
- Induction
- Fibonacci numbers and phyllotaxis
- Trees and membrane systems as models
- Case studyes of membrane models
- Discrete models of metabolism
- Graphs and biological networks
- Models of population evolution

Oral exam