Innovating with Biomathematics

This course was officially launched on Thursday Morning Science. See Thursday Morning Science - 08/04/2021 on the YouTube channel

Università degli Studi dell'Aquila E-Learning. This presentation will give you a better idea whether the course is for you!

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When we create mathematical models to biology and medicine, an imperative challenge is how to make them available to the respective users/public. Software such as Matlab™ has been doing a nice work on that direction. However, it is my belief that anyone could use their expertise to create online platforms, for making their models into codes, and codes into user-friendly interfaces. On this course, I use an example for my most recent research period to make a point: user-friendly interface is imperative for making mathematical models available properly to the medical and biological sciences. Join me on this endeavor with you lines of codes, and set of equations!

One aspect of personalized medicine is aiming at identifying specific targets for therapy considering the gene expression profile of each patient individually. The real-world implementation of this approach is better achieved by user-friendly bioinformatics systems for healthcare professionals.

In this course, I present an online platform that endows users with an interface designed to support medical doctors on applying computational biology to their decision process. This example is used to raise discussions and insights into the challenges of designing user-friendly interfaces to computational biology.

Moreover, I also talk about topics related to startups in healthcare and how it can support biomathematicians on their quest for making their models easily available to professionals with little, or even, no expertise on computational models.

This course is ideal for those that want to learn more about computational biology and innovative online systems based on computational biology.

Keywords. Systems biology; target therapy; personalized medicine; user-friendly interface; web applications.

Main references:

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Jorge Guerra Pires, Gilberto Ferreira da Silva, Thomas Weyssow, Alessandra Jordano Conforte, Dante Pagnoncelli, Fabricio Alves Barbosa da Silva, Nicolas Carels . “Galaxy and MEAN stack to create a user-friendly workflow for the rational optimization of cancer chemotherapy. “ Omics Technologies Toward Systems Biology. Special Issue.

The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. Book by Bob Dorf and Steve Blank