The meeting of Biology, Mathematics and Computation

Having broken the human organism down into his smallest components, the
25,000 genes and maybe 100,000 proteins, biology of the 21st century faces
the challenge of how to put it all back together again. The Human Physiome
Project aims to do this, using collaborations worldwide between
mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, engineers, biochemists,
physiologists and even experts from the social sciences. The challenge is
vastly greater than sequencing the genome. It raises big questions on the
conceptual foundations of biology, and it requires unusual forms of
collaboration. The lecture will first explain the principles of this area
of science and then describe how the collaborations have been established
to make it possible.

Reference

Noble D (2006) The Music of Life, Oxford OUP.

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