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SUMMARY:BlenX\, a language based approach for modelling biological systems
  - Roberto Larcher\, CoSBi
DTSTART:20090121T110000Z
DTEND:20090121T120000Z
UID:TALK14741@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Dr Fabien Petitcolas
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*: Modelling activity is a process whose aim is to ob
 tain a realistic description of a system. A number of different languages 
 and tools have been developed to model biological systems\, and most of th
 em follow the same schema: the proposal of a means to explicitly list all 
 the molecules and the reactions involved in the system. The aim of this se
 minar is to present a different approach through the introduction of a new
  language\, BlenX. In order to get a better understanding of this language
 \, I present a case study: the actin polymerization process. In the last p
 art of the seminar I will focus on some problems of the BlenX language\, h
 ighlighting its main drawbacks and presenting possible solutions.\n\n*Biog
 raphy*: Roberto Larcher attended the Faculty of Science at the University 
 of Trento\, where he obtained a Bachelor's degree (2004) and a Master's de
 gree (2006) in Computer Science. His thesis\, “From BioAmbients to Beta-
 binders with compartment\,” focused on comparing the two process algebra
 s in order to underline the futures of the second one. In 2006-2007 he com
 pleted the Second level International Master’s in Computational and Syst
 ems Biology at the Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Co
 mputational and Systems Biology. 
LOCATION:Small public lecture room\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thomso
 n Avenue (Off Madingley Road)\, Cambridge
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