*tomorrow* Introduction to Systems Biology and Rule Based Modeling of Biochemical Systems

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*tomorrow* Introduction to Systems Biology and Rule Based Modeling of Biochemical Systems

Stephen Guerin
Santa Fe Complex is hosting an "Art of Systems Biology" Show in the  
Spring 2009 with Los Alamos National Lab. We're recruiting students  
and mentors to learn about Systems Biology and develop models and  
visualizations for the show and for projects in Supercomputing  
Challenge <http://challenge.nm.org>. Bill's talk is a first tutorial  
on the subject.

The talk should also be of strong interest to folks in the agent-based  
modeling community to potentially think about their models from a  
Systems Biology perspective as an interaction graph model with graph-
rewriting rules.

Please come tomorrow!


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Systems Biology Introduction and Rule-based Modeling of Biochemical  
Systems

SPEAKER: Bill Hlavacek, LANL Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, T-6
          http://www.t6.lanl.gov/wish/

LOCATION: Wed, Oct 21, 10:30a-12:30p @ Santa Fe Complex, 624 Agua Fria  
<http://www.sfcomplex.org>

ABSTRACT:
LANL researcher Bill Hlavacek hosts a WedTech talk on rule-based  
modeling of biomechanical systems. This approach involves representing  
molecules as structured objects (graphs) and molecular interactions as  
(graph-rewriting) rules for transforming the attributes of these  
objects.

The approach is notable in that it allows one to systematically  
incorporate site-specific details about protein-protein interactions  
into a model for the dynamics of a signal-transduction system, but the  
method has other applications as well, such as following the fates of  
individual carbon atoms in metabolic reactions. The consequences of  
protein-protein interactions are difficult to specify and track with a  
conventional modeling approach because of the large number of protein  
phosphoforms and protein complexes that these interactions potentially  
generate. In this tutorial talk, I will focus on how a rule-based  
model is specified in the BioNetGen language (BNGL) and how a model  
specification is analyzed using the BioNetGen software framework.

After Bill's talk, the Wedtech@sfcomplex group will walk over to lunch  
at El Tesoro at 12:30p

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