That Biology and Computation have been on a interception course at a very fundamental level has not been news since von Neumann’s first played with universal constructors in 1940’s. However it took another half century for us to see it happening in the study of the Cell Biology that inspired it. During this interval, the relative inefficiency in characterizing biomolecular machineries has protected us from the realization that we do need a new formal synthesis to represent systems that are complex and non-linear. Interestingly, once this protection was removed and high throughput molecular Biology methods flooded our ability to understand the experimental evidence, it took a mere decade for this now obvious introductory paragraph to be already considered a lot of talking. Let us move to the coding then.

Biography of Jonas S. Almeida:
Dr. Almeida received his BS in Applied Plant Biology and his PhD in Biological Engineering from the University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal. At UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. Almeida directs the Integrative Bioinformatics Laboratory (IBL), which conducts research on integrated management and analysis of biomolecular data. This lab develops algorithmic and data management prototypes in response to the specific need for seamless systemic integration in biomedical research.
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