GRNs and aGRNs

• Genetic Regulatory Networks (GRN)

  • The basic control networks that underlie the development and responses of organisms
  • Involve interactions between genes, RNA, proteins

• Artificial Genetic Regulatory Networks

  • Input – output transformation systems
  • Built using concepts taken from “GRN-theory” – assumptions on how GRNs work

• Why aGRNs?

  • As (very crude) models of the “real thing”
  • Interest in “computational potential”

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