BY659/CS659
FALL 2007

Lecturer: James F. Lynch
Office: SC-381
Telephone: 268-2374
email: jlynch@clarkson.edu
Office hours: MW 11:00AM–1:00PM, F 11:00AM–12:00PM
Lecture hours: MWF 9:00AM–9:50AM, SC-301
Text: Stochastic Modelling for Systems Biology, by Darren J. Wilkinson

ISBN:  1-58488-540-8

SYLLABUS

We should be able to cover the entire text, and possibly read some outside material.

We may examine some systems biology software, and some students may develop software related to the course and report on it.

GRADING

Grading will be based entirely on the readings and participation in discussions and experiments with software. There may be some problems assigned as homework, but there will be no exams or final.

READING

Jeremy M. Berg, John L. Tymoczko, and Lubert Stryker, Biochemistry, 5th Ed., W, H, Freeman and Company, New York (2002), Chapter 1, pp. 3-18.
Jeremy M. Berg, John L. Tymoczko, and Lubert Stryker, Biochemistry, 5th Ed., W, H, Freeman and Company, New York (2002), Chapter 2, pp. 19-40.

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

Wednesday September 5
Monday September 10
Monday September 17
Friday September 21
Monday September 24
Friday September 28

LINKS (need to be updated)

Alife

Conferences and Workshops

Corporations

Research Groups and Institutes

Software

QUOTES

  • Biologists can be divided into two classes: experimentalists who observe things that cannot be explained, and theoreticians who explain things that cannot be observed. - Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky
  • [Ask] not what mathematics can do for biology but what biology can do for mathematics. - Stanislaw M. Ulam, paraphrasing a famous remark of John F. Kennedy