Networking Science and Information Processing Technology for Nano-Biological Systems in the New Millennium



Tutorial Invitation


In the era of ubiquitous communications, lT technology historically accelerated by industries are now summoned by the state-of-the-art of nanotechnology and molecular biology, which are expected for building molecular signal and information processing systems in nano-size and/or on the basis of biological mechanism.

This tutorial is arranged to focusing on the informatics essential of the nano-bio-world being explored by nanotechnology and molecular biology, which is presented based on the following key topics:

  • Computational Biology for Nano-machines;
  • Biomolecular Information Processing;
  • Information Theory and Network Informatics for Cellular Communication Systems;
  • Biomolecular Computing.


Tutorial references

Jian-Qin LIU (Presenter) (KARC, JP) Kazuhiro OIWA (KARC, JP)

Outline

  1. Introduction
    1. The Needs and Challenges of Nano-biotechnology in the Ubiquitous Society
    2. Fundamentals of Nanotechnology and Molecular Biology
  2. Outline of Control Theory and Neuro-Science
  3. Preliminaries on Nanotechnology and Molecular Biology
    1. Basic Concepts of Nanobiotechnology
    2. Nanotechnology and frontiers material sciences
    3. Advanced Topics of Molecular Biology
  4. Nano-manipulation and Nano-electronics: Industrial Automation by Nanotechnology
    1. Molecular Motors
    2. Nano-machines in general
    3. What kinds of signaling processing and automatic control technologies are needed for nano-machines?
  5. Looking at the Biomolecular Information Processing Mechanism in vitro and in vivo
    1. Uniqueness of Biomolecular Signaling in Living Cells
    2. Observing Nonlinear Behaviors of Cells in the Eyes of Complex Systems
    3. Molecular Signaling Processing in Terms of Systems Biology
    4. Nanobio-Cybernetics
    5. From Molecular Chemotaxis to Molecular Sensor Networks in the Nature
    6. Signal Transduction Network: Being Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Autopoietic
    7. An Example: Reconstruction of Phosphorylation/dephosphorylation Pathway network
    8. Bioinformatics for Signaling Pathways: Approaches to Understanding the Molecular Mechanism of Living Cells
  6. Information Theory and Network Informatics for Engineered Cellular Communication Systems
    1. Preliminaries on Mathematical Aspects of Information Theory
    2. Computational Nanobio-informatic
    3. Information-Theoretic Approaches to Modeling the Cellular Communication Processes
    4. Moleware Coding and Its Information Capacity: How Far Away from the Shannon Limit
    5. Comparison of Nanobio-Communication Systems in the Nature and the Tools in Telecommunication Engineering
  7. Biomolecular Computing
    1. Data Structure, Automata and Formal Languages for Biomolecular Computing
    2. Algorithm Design and Complexity Analysis of Biomolecular Computing
    3. Branches of Biomolecular Computing
    4. Reliability versus Robustness of Biological Signaling Processes
    5. Biomolecular Computing toward Molecular Biomedical Engineering
  8. Perspective -- Integrating Network Informatics, Nanobiotechnology and Neuro-Science