CoSBi has two main goals: to enhance biology AND computer science.

We want to increase our understanding of fundamental biological processes at system level by using programming language theory to design new conceptual tools. We create computational abstractions that can be executed to visualize the time course dynamics of biological systems. We redesign many verification and analysis computer science techniques and adapt them to the life science applicative domain in order to answer new kinds of questions.

At the same time, computer science is looking more and more to parallelism even in PC processors. Biological systems are the most parallel systems ever studied and we hope to use our better understanding of how living systems handle information to design new computational paradigms, programming languages and software development environments. The net result would be the design and implementation of better applications firmly grounded on new computational, massively parallel paradigms in many different areas.

CoSBi’s approach can be an additional foundation for systems biology rooted at the heart of computer science. This is why we call it ALGORITHMIC SYSTEMS BIOLOGY.

I am proud of the results we have obtained thanks to the wonderful CoSBi team that makes realizing our goal closer and closer every day. It is a pleasure to see scientists from different backgrounds, cultures and personal histories share the same views, exchange ideas and co-operate through understanding each other. Researchers know that CoSBi's goal can be attained only by playing at system level, as a team, and they are doing a great job. Finally, I am even prouder that we invest and focus on ideas, our main asset along with our human capital. As long as people continue to look first at applications rather than at their enabling ideas, we are only able to say that we live in the technology society, a step behind the knowledge society we all are aiming for.

Corrado Priami
President and CEO