CPE6005   Biosystems Engineering & Computational Biology   (15 credits)

Description

A module designed to provide students with the knowledge and tools necessary to understand and analyse the design of biological systems for human benefit. In particular the course will teach aspects of algorithmics related to computational biology (e.g. sequence alignment) as well as of reconstruction of biochemical networks and their mathematical representation and analysis. This will then be used to allow for formulation of metabolic engineering and/or synthetic biology strategies. The unit aims to introduce core concepts of computational/systems biology and their application towards inference in the post-genomic era and engineering of biological systems. In particular, the framework is the present concepts and exampled that will allow students to analyse and carry out metabolic engineering/synthetic biology of cellular systems.

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