Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 20.181 (Fall 2006) 
• Course Title:
• Computation for Biological Engineers 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Biological Engineering 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Eric Alm
  Prof. Andrew Endy 
• Course Introduction:
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  20.181 Computation for Biological Engineers
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2006

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features many lecture notes and a complete set of assignments with solutions.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course covers the analytical, graphical, and numerical methods supporting the analysis and design of integrated biological systems. Topics include modularity and abstraction in biological systems, mathematical encoding of detailed physical problems, numerical methods for solving the dynamics of continuous and discrete chemical systems, statistics and probability in dynamic systems, applied local and global optimization, simple feedback and control analysis, statistics and probability in pattern recognition.

  An official course Web site and Wiki is maintained on OpenWetWare: 20.181 Computation for Biological Engineers.

  
  
  

  Technical Requirements

  
  
  

  Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .py, .pdb (Protein Data Bank), and .zip.