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Mathematical modelling in bioinformatics - MB151P133
Title: Matematické modelování v bioinformatice
Czech title: Matematické modelování v bioinformatice
Guaranteed by: Department of Cell Biology (31-151)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2021 to 2023
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Mgr. Jiří Šejnoha
Teacher(s): Mgr. Jiří Šejnoha
Annotation -
Last update: Mgr. Marian Novotný, Ph.D. (30.09.2021)
The course is based on mathematical modelling and development of biological (especially cellular) structures and processes that are simulated in silico.

We will deal with:
a) the basics of modelling and simulations, including various approaches (especially from the point of view of the compartments and their interactions), including suitable and appropriate mathematical background
b) application of models to specific biological situations - according to articles

Students will try and explore:
a) a simple continuous compartmental model of immunity and its behavior, including the classification of system developments
b) connection of the model with the data
c) formulation of the model and its implementation
d) a more complex discrete cell model with applications to cell differentiation and chemotactic motion

The research is conducted both analytically (what and why is happening) and synthetically (creating a system of given properties).


Literature -
Last update: Mgr. Marian Novotný, Ph.D. (30.09.2021)

Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig; Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach; Prentice Hall, 3. edition, (2010)

Hiroki Sayama; Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems; Open SUNY Textbooks, Milne Library, (2015)

Seeing around corners: Cells solve mazes and respond at a distance using attractant breakdown,

Science 28 Aug 2020: Vol. 369, Issue 6507, eaay9792, DOI: 10.1126/science.aay9792

Mayer H, Zaenker KS, An Der Heiden U. A basic mathematical model of the immune response. Chaos. 1995 Mar; 5:155-161. DOI: 10.1063/1.166098. PMID: 12780168.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: Mgr. Marian Novotný, Ph.D. (30.09.2021)

Credit will be awarded for this course by successfully completing the following requirements:

  • active participation in the exercises, usually consisting of solving assigned tasks during the exercises or later on at home,

  • completion of a semester project (consisting of definition, description, implementation, simulation and research of model including description and classification of its behaviour)

Due to the nature of the requirements, a failed attempt cannot be repeated as is possible for exams.

The teacher may establish conditions whereby a student can make up for missing active participation assignments or resubmit their semester project after improving deficiencies that were found the previous time around.

The examination consists of written and oral parts involving the ability to apply the gained knowledge to solve exercises. 

The examination could be in the contact or distance form. 

 

Syllabus -
Last update: Mgr. Marian Novotný, Ph.D. (30.09.2021)

Models and Simulations

  • differences between observation, model, simulations and laboratory experiments

  • simplification of reality

  • where and how mistakes arise

  • different approaches to modelling

Simple model of immunity - experiments with a given model

  • compartments

  • feed forward and feedback

  • definition of entities, their relations with the proportion of abstraction

  • description of the model by differential equations

  • examining the behavior of the model and modulating its behavior

  • application of the model to biological situations

Creation and description of the model

  • students create/define a more advanced model

  • definition of entities, their relations with the proportion of abstraction and uncertainties of natural language;

  • formulation of the model in the graph, analysis of the behavior of the model

Generalization of interactions

  • introduction to the taxonomy of behaviors of dynamic systems

  • introduction to the chaos theory of dynamical systems

  • emergent behavior of the system: definitions, properties, conditions

Generalization of models

  • taxonomy of models: principles and borders

  • multiagent systems: definition of agents and environments

  • formulation of a multiagent approach to cell models and intercellular interactions

  • classification of models by agent type (no state, with state, with model, with goal, learning)

  • cellular automata and other models described by rules

  • language, rules and the Chomsky hierarchy

 
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