Section: Application Domains

Biological data integration

Axis 1 (data integration) aims at identifying who is involved in the specific response of a biological system to an environmental stress. Targeted actors will mainly consist in groups of genetic products or biological pathways. For instance, which pathways are implied in the specific production of PUFAs in brown algae? The main work is to represent in a system of logical constraints the full knowledge at hand concerning the genetic or metabolic actors, the available observations and the effects of the system dynamics. To this aim, we focus on the use of Answer Set Programming as we are experienced in modeling with this paradigm and we have a strong partnership with a computer science team leader in the development of dedicated grounders and solvers (Potsdam university).