Sunday, March 26, 2006, 11:15-12:15
Room 309
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Ron Pinter
Technion
Title:
Modeling and Analysis of Biological Pathways
Abstract:
Biological networks and pathways are used to describe
various aspects of the interactions
among cellular components.
Elucidating their behavior requires the development and the
application of computational tools
and techniques. Naturally,
different methods are suitable for
different kinds of analyses, e.g.
extracting qualitative vs. observing
quantitative properties.
In this talk I will present a number of methods that we have
devised
to analyze both metabolic as well
as regulatory pathways along with
the biological consequences that
they have yielded. Our methods
include both static as well as
dynamic analyses, and they utilize
both discrete as well as continuous
modeling. I will conclude with
some thoughts concerning the
potential integration of the methods
into a unified framework so as to fit the end-users' needs.