Synthetic and Systems Biology

Objectives

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General characterization

Code

10827

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Pedro Miguel Ribeiro Viana Baptista, Rui Manuel Freitas Oliveira

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 85

Teaching language

Português

Prerequisites

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Bibliography

Mainly scientific papers.

Books:

 - D. Wilkinson. Stochastic Modeling for Systems Biology, Chapman&Hall, 2006

- Alon, Uri. An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall, 2007. ISBN: 9781584886426.

- Fu P. and Panke S. Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009

Teaching method

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Evaluation method

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Subject matter

Module I -  Systems Biology

1 Introduction to Systems and Synthetic Biology

2 Constraints based modeling

2.1 Metabolic flux analysis

2.2.Flux balance analysis

2.3. Gene regulation networks

3 Statistical modeling

3.1 Nonparametric modeling

3.2. Classification methods

3.3 Linear and non-linear regression methods

4. Design of standard biological parts

5. Design of synthetic biological circuits

Module II - Synthetic Biology 

1-     Introduction to Synthetic Biology 

2-     Synthetic molecules

  • Proteins 
  • Nucleic Acids 

3-     Genetic parts to program bacteria 

4-     Gene regulatory circuits  

  • collective behavior engineering

5-     Synthetic Biology and Yeast Metabolic Engineering  

6-     RNA in Synthetic Biology 

7-     Challenges in Synthetic Biology 

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