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SEAS Receives NSF Grant to Study Complex Biological Networks

The National Science Foundation's interdisciplinary Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation program has awarded Professor Rahul Simha and his collaborators, Chen Zeng (Physics) and Yongwu Rong (Mathematics), a four-year, nearly $1.2 million grant for their proposal, entitled "Understanding Complex Biological Networks: A Process Viewpoint." The grant is a boost to the complex systems research group started by Zeng and Simha, now called the Institute for Biomolecular Networks. This research group focuses on understanding fundamental design principles in nature's networks, in particular the network of interactions among molecules in an average cell. The approach uses mathematical logic to model such networks that, as it turns out, reveals a surprising connection between bio-complexity and the infamous satisfiability problem in computer science.

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