Principles of Biological Computing Workshop
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum in which the focus is exclusively on how natural biological systems compute. What are the computational primitives underlying biological computing and how can the corresponding principles be abstracted away from non-essential (for computation!) details of the physical implementation? We expect to attract a broad range of scientists to the workshop, ranging from neuroscientists and molecular biologists to computer scientists and physicists.
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May 18, 2008 09:10 AM
to May 21, 2008 09:10 AM |
| Where | Sata Fe |
| Contact Name | Garrett Kenyon |
| Contact Email | garkenyon@gmail.com |
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 18- 21, 2008
Preliminary Schedule:
Sunday, May 18, Evening Reception
Monday, May 19: 9AM-12PM 1st Session; 2PM-5PM 2nd Session
Monday, May 19, 7:30PM, Dinner
Tuesday, May 20 9AM-12PM 3rd Session; 2PM-5PM 4th Session
Wednesday, May 21, 9AM-12PM 5th Session
Computational Biology is not Biological Computation. The order matters. Whereas Computa-tional Biology typically involves the application of computational tools (models, data bases, etc) to the analysis of genetic, anatomical, physiological and behavioral data, Biological Computation seeks to isolate the elusive (and in many cases still undiscovered) computational primitives em-ployed by naturally evolved systems, often abstracted from any particular biophysical implemen-tation or specific species. Many conferences that address Biological Computation often do so as part of larger gatherings devoted to an entire field (i.e. the annual Society for Neuroscience meet-ings, or the International Conference on Systems Biology) in which the directly relevant presen-tations are widely scattered and general principles are difficult to synthesize. Smaller, more fo-cused conferences still typically mix research on computational methods with studies of how biological systems actually compute or else include a heavy focus on Applications whose con-nection to "real" biology may be tenuous at best.
Organizers
Melanie Mitchell (Portland State)
Chris Wood (Santa Fe Institute)
Funding: LANL, NMC, SFI, NSF
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