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Programming and Systems Biology

CBSE · Class 11 · Biotechnology

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Programming in Biology

  • Large-scale biological data are now generated through high-throughput methods.
  • Massive data create challenges in storage, visualisation, transfer, analysis, and interpretation.
  • Programming knowledge is useful for handling biological datasets and making predictions.
2

Python, R, GEC and Kera

  • Python is a high-level, general-purpose, object-oriented programming interactive language.
  • Python was created by Guido van Rossum in 1991.
  • Python runs on Unix, Mac, and Windows.
3

Systems Biology: Meaning and Need

  • Systems biology studies complex biological interactions within biological systems.
  • It uses mathematical and computational models to mimic complex biological systems.
  • Such models are called system models.
4

Historical Perspective

  • In 1952, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley described a mathematical model for action potential propagation along the axon of a neuronal cell.
  • In 1960, Denis Noble developed the first computer model of the heart pacemaker.
  • Systems biology was formally launched in 1966 by Mihajlo Mesarovic at the Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Biology now produces largePython is a highR was developed by Robert GentlemanGEC stands for Genetic EngineeringSystems biology studies biological systems by

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