Metabolic Pathways Analysis 3
A Biochemical Society Harden Conference (No. 71).
19-23 September 2011; Chester, UK.
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Scientific Background
The 71st Harden Conference, "Metabolic Pathway Analysis (2011)" will be the third meeting of that name, previous meetings having been held in 2009 at the Lorentz center, Leiden, and in 2005 at the University of Jena.
The meeting has a primary focus on the structural (topological) analysis of metabolic networks, and in particular techniques allied to linear algebra, linear programming and computer modelling. This focus may be applied at many levels of abstraction, from individual reaction mechanisms, through pathways, organelles, whole organisms and, most recently, mixed populations.
In common with previous MPA meetings, one of the major objectives of MPA2011 is to provide time and space to allow delegates to participate in round-table discussions and informal meetings in addition to the plenary sessions. There will be no published proceedings, and it is hoped that this will encourage participants, both in the formal and informal sessions, to present work in progress, and raise speculative ideas and questions for discussion, that would not be possible in a meeting of more conventional format.
Many, but by no means all, of the participants of previous MPA meetings are also active in the International Study Group for Systems Biology (http://sysbio.brookes.ac.uk, http://ISGSB2010.org), whose meetings are held biennially on even years. It is hoped that in future MPA and ISGSB will continue to be held on alternate years, providing a natural counterpoint to one another.
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