MC
6460
Speaker
Donghoon Lee | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Title
L++ : A New Coding Language for Life Design
Abstract
How can we effectively build a biological system from scratch? It would first require a standard human-readable language to efficiently generate a blueprint of it, which should also be a computer-interpretable code to simulate and visualize it. To build such a life design platform, we are creating a new coding language, L++, dedicated to design biological systems. Its intuitive and expressive syntax and hierarchical top-down programming style enable life designers to unambiguously describe the system at any resolution. L++ source code is processed by its compiler to generate simulation and visualization programs. With L++, we vision that biology becomes programming, which will fundamentally transform the way we approach biology and human diseases.