I am working as a researcher at Scool
of Computer Science, University of
Nottingham with
Professor
Natalio Krasnogor.
My research intrests include Parallel/Distributed/Grid/GPGPU Computing,
Bioinformatics, Synthetic Biology and Grand
Challenge Applciations in Life Sciences.
Currently,
I am researching as team
member under the project named
“The CHELL": A
Bottom-Up approach to in vitro and in silico Minimal Life-like
Constructs. This project involves collaboration of
computer scientists, technologists, pharmacists, chemists, and social
scientists from three leading Universities of UK i.e., University of
Nottingham, University of Oxford and the University of Glasgow.
The
overall vision of this project is to design and build (“synthesize”)
novel life-like (biological) functions and systems through wet lab
(
in vitro) and wetware (
in silico) experiments. Unlike,
the traditional
top-down approach (i.e., taking a biological
system and reducing its components systematically until an organism
no longer functions), this project is based on the
bottom-up
approach (i.e., assembling non-living components or
information units until an aspect of ‘life’ appears). Thus the
synthesis based on this bottom-up approach would lead us to the
creation and understanding of the minimal living entity i.e., the
CHELL (CHEmical ceLL) or the Protocell, its functional components
(e.g., Container (C), Metabolism (M) and Information (I)) as well as
its interaction with the natural cell.
The members of the CHELL project can visit and contribute to the
project WIKI and Group at:
Vist the Project Wiki:
https://sites.google.com/site/thechellproject/
Visit the Discussion Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/thechellproject
