BIEN 540. Information Storage and Processing in Biological Systems.
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BIEN 540
Information Storage and Processing in Biological Systems.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Bioengineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Storage and processing of information in biological systems, both natural and artificially-created, ranging from biomolecules, cells, and populations of cells.
Information storage in DNA and DNA computation; molecular surfaces of proteins; computation with motile biological agents in networks; and biological and biologically-inspired algorithms.
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