Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Catalysis in Reaction Networks
Biobytes Seminar
Speaker:
Manoj Gopalkrishnan
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
School of Technology and Computer Science
Homi Bhabha R
Date:
Thursday, 24 Feb 2011 (all day)
Venue:
A-212 (STCS Seminar Room)
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Abstract:
If networks of chemical reactions are the circuits of biology then catalysts are the switches. But which species should be called catalysts? Chemistry textbooks answer this question when there is a single reaction. For an entire network of reactions , the concept becomes more nuanced, and has been worked out in a recent paper (arXiv:1006.3627). I will discuss this notion of catalysis for reaction networks, and illustrate it with an example from the seesaw gate of Qian and Winfree ( http://www.dna.caltech.edu/DNAresearch_publications.html#SeesawTheory ), which is a motif for engineering large reaction networks out of DNA molecules.
Prerequisites: You should know what a graph is, what a monomial is, what the greatest common divisor of two monomials is, and what DNA is.
url http://tifrbiobytes.blogspot.com
| Speaker: | Manoj Gopalkrishnan Tata Institute of Fundamental Research School of Technology and Computer Science Homi Bhabha R |
| Date: | Thursday, 24 Feb 2011 (all day) |
| Venue: | A-212 (STCS Seminar Room) |
(Scan to add to calendar)
Abstract:
If networks of chemical reactions are the circuits of biology then catalysts are the switches. But which species should be called catalysts? Chemistry textbooks answer this question when there is a single reaction. For an entire network of reactions , the concept becomes more nuanced, and has been worked out in a recent paper (arXiv:1006.3627). I will discuss this notion of catalysis for reaction networks, and illustrate it with an example from the seesaw gate of Qian and Winfree ( http://www.dna.caltech.edu/DNAresearch_publications.html#SeesawTheory ), which is a motif for engineering large reaction networks out of DNA molecules.
Prerequisites: You should know what a graph is, what a monomial is, what the greatest common divisor of two monomials is, and what DNA is.
url http://tifrbiobytes.blogspot.com
Prerequisites: You should know what a graph is, what a monomial is, what the greatest common divisor of two monomials is, and what DNA is.
url http://tifrbiobytes.blogspot.com