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BioScience Computing exploits the synergy of challenges facing both Computer Science and Biology, drawing inspiration from Biology to solve Computer Science challenges and simultaneously using new bio-inspired adaptive software to model and simulate biological systems.
This seminar has two parts:
Part 2 provides a concrete example of computational simulation --- the Artificial Cytoskeleton, which utilises swarm agents and a cellular automaton to model adaptations in cell shape (morphogenesis). Morphological adaptation for tasks such as chemotaxis (chasing a chemical gradient) and phagocytosis (eating another cell) are presented, and the role of the Artificial Cytoskeleton and its swarm-based techniques in both Computer Science and Biology is explained.