Speaker:

Rasmus Lerchedahl Petersen,
Microsoft Research Cambridge,
Biological Computation Group (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/biology/)

Title:
 Current and future tools for designing molecular computation

Abstract:

For the past three years I have been developing and maintaining the core computational tools in the Biological Computation group at Microsoft Research Cambridge.
The group is taking a language based approach to understanding and designing biological systems, that is, building domain specific languages tailored to describe biological systems but to look a bit like programming languages. Rather than compiling to executable code, they compile to descriptions that can be simulated or interrogated in other ways.
I will showcase the current status of some of the tools along with notable applications and give a preview of some of the future developments.

Host:
 Lars Birkedal