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Twenty-Fifth Annual IEEE Symposium on

LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2010)

11th-14th July 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.

Modern biology has made great advances in our knowledge of the workings of organisms at the molecular level. Although there is still much to be learned in this area, many biologists believe that the next major effort in their discipline will be to understand how these cellular components work together, in much the same way that the components of a computer are integrated. This system-level knowledge is essential to solving important problems like understanding the causes of diseases and discovering new drugs. As models of biological systems grow in complexity, researchers are experiencing some of the same problems that beset software designers and computer engineers. Some biologists have stressed the need for a formal framework in which to develop and test their models. Computer scientists have started to apply formal methods to building and analyzing models of biological systems. The lectures in this workshop will discuss progress and future directions in this interdisciplinary research.