Workshop: 3rd International Summer School on Biocomplexity; August 16 - 23, 2003, Hanover, New Hampshire

数学、工程学、物理学和计算机科学的整合和应用最近被用于通过检查细胞和有机体功能的结构和动力学来更好地理解复杂的生物系统。这个被称为“系统生物学”的新兴领域已经引起了分子和细胞研究人员的极大兴趣，因为它提供了一个连续的知识谱。这个暑期学校的主要目标是让本科生、研究生和博士后生物科学和生物工程专业的学生接触到系统生物学中相对较新的数学和计算挑战方法，以促进这些数学和计算工具在生物科学中的快速传播。这些方法也将有助于对生物学和生物工程研究感兴趣的计算机科学和数学专业的学生和博士后，因为暑期学校提供了对生物科学基本挑战的独特见解。暑期学校采用面向生物科学专业学生的授课方式，由专业教师授课，并将侧重于生物数据挖掘和知识发现，这些知识可用于理解高度互联和复杂的生物系统。除了这些讲座外，暑期学校还将采用两个2小时的小组讨论，本科生、研究生和博士后都将积极参与，重点讨论系统生物学、计算生物学、生物信息学和分子生物学与工程学的未来发展。此外，学生将在最后的海报会议上展示他们的项目成果，这将促进对生物学和计算方法的讨论。暑期学校将进一步促进生物学家、工程师、数学家、计算机科学家和医学研究人员之间的跨学科研究和合作，并将有助于在复杂的生物科学和生物工程研究中确定新的、具有挑战性的方向。

The integration and application of mathematics, engineering, physics and computer science have been recently used to better understand complex biological systems by examining the structure and dynamics of cellular and organism function. This emerging field called "Systems Biology" has gained tremendous interest among molecular and cellular researchers since it provides a continuous spectrum of knowledge.The main objective of this summer school is to expose undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral biological science and bioengineering students to the relatively new approaches of mathematical and computational challenges in Systems Biology to facilitate rapid diffusion of these mathematical and computational tools in the biological sciences. These methods will be helpful, also, to both students and post-doctoral fellows in computer science and mathematics who are interested in pursuing research in biology and bioengineering, since the summer school provides exceptional insights into the fundamental challenges in biological sciences.The summer school uses lectures, oriented toward biological science students, by expert faculty and will focus on biological data mining and knowledge discovery that can be used to understand highly interconnected and complex biological systems. In addition to these lectures, the summer school will employ two 2-hour panel discussions, with active participation of undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral fellows, focused on future developments in systems biology, computational biology, bioinformatics and molecular biology and engineering. In addition, students will present the results of their projects in a culminating poster session, which will facilitate discussion of both the biology andcomputational approaches. The summer school will stimulate further interdisciplinary research and collaborations among biologists, engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists, and medical researchers, and will help in identifying new, challenging directions in complex biological science and bioengineering research.