Re: [DIYbio] Advice for a computer scientist who doesn't understand biology

Hey,

since you come from a CS background, it probably makes sense to look
for something at the interface of synbio and CS, such as modeling
biological systems (for example, systems biology), or the "composable
systems" approach to synbio. You could start by looking at the work of
Jean Peccoud (http://www.vbi.vt.edu/faculty/personal/Jean_Peccoud) and
work your way from there. Maybe a manageable problem to work on will
pop up. Or you could look into the research that has been done on
biocomputing, a lot of which has a synbio component. I wrote an
introduction to biocomputing a while back, aimed at people with a CS
background. You can find it here:
http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~thalheim/biocomputing.pdf
Hope that helps you get started.

Cheers,
Lisa

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Ujjwal Thaakar <ujjwalthaakar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm a third year computer science student from Gujarat, India. I have
> recently picked up synthetic biology as my seminar topic(a subject where you
> study about something that interests you throughout the semester). I picked
> this up as I smelled the future in it and because the concept sounded
> freakishly cool!
> Now the problem is that I have experience only with high school biology and
> haven't touched any since the last 5 years. Where do I start and where
> should I aim to end by May 2013. Doing something practical is of the highest
> importance to me but I understand that it might not be feasible given my
> current knowledge and time so I would like some concrete advice.
>
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