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Abstract for Seminar
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'In Vivo - In Silico' (finding out how nature grows complex systems)
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Tuesday 2nd November 2004
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16:00
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Brian Spratt Room
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Professor Ronan Sleep
University of East Anglia
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We routinely use massively powerful computer simulations and visualisations
to design aeroplanes, build bridges and to predict weather. With computer
power and biological knowledge increasing daily, perhaps we can apply
advanced computer simulation techniques to realise computer embodiments of
living systems. This is the thinking behind iViS (in Vivo -- in Silico),
a 15 year+ Grand Challenge project which aims to realise fully detailed,
accurate and predictive computer embodiments of plants, animals and
unicellular organisms.
Possible benefits of iViS include an understanding of regeneration processes
in plants and animals, with potentially dramatic implications for disease
and accident victims. iViS may also lead to revolutionary ways of realising
complex systems: instead of designing and programming such systems in
excruciating detail, perhaps we can just grow them from compact initial
descriptions in a suitable medium. We know it's possible, because that's
exactly what nature does when it grows a plant or animal from a single cell.
During the talk I will introduce the challenge, show some of the things it
needs to model, outline some current approaches, and talk about some of the
early work we have done towards the challenge at UEA.
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We routinely use massively powerful computer simulations and visualisations
to design aeroplanes, build bridges and to predict weather. With computer
power and biological knowledge increasing daily, perhaps we can apply
advanced computer simulation techniques to realise computer embodiments of
living systems. This is the thinking behind iViS (in Vivo -- in Silico),
a 15 year+ Grand Challenge project which aims to realise fully detailed,
accurate and predictive computer embodiments of plants, animals and
unicellular organisms.
Possible benefits of iViS include an understanding of regeneration processes
in plants and animals, with potentially dramatic implications for disease
and accident victims. iViS may also lead to revolutionary ways of realising
complex systems: instead of designing and programming such systems in
excruciating detail, perhaps we can just grow them from compact initial
descriptions in a suitable medium. We know it's possible, because that's
exactly what nature does when it grows a plant or animal from a single cell.
During the talk I will introduce the challenge, show some of the things it
needs to model, outline some current approaches, and talk about some of the
early work we have done towards the challenge at UEA.
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