March 2-6 > Scope

March 2-6, 2020. Research school on Networks and molecular biology

Scope

Networks (aka. maps or graphs) provide a powerful framework to represent and model the relationships between the elements of biological systems. Indeed, networks can encompass a wide variety of biological information such as genetic or transcriptional regulation, protein-protein interaction, metabolic or signaling pathways, for instance. The nodes of the network typically represent the biological components, whereas edges represent interactions between them. The resulting systems are highly complex, display emerging properties, and prevent a simple direct interpretation. The field of network biology is highly dynamic and challenging. The week will be organized around 3 theoretical themes. First, Network modeling to simulate the cellular dynamics. Then, to leverage the recent and abundant -omics data, we will focus on Network inference approaches, and, finally, Network mining strategies.
The global aim of the conference is to present both (i) theoretical models and (ii) applications of these approaches to biomedicine, in particular rare diseases and cancer.

Keywords: Biological networks - Graph theory - Discrete mathematical modeling - Big data - Omics - Statistical Inference - Machine learning

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