Royal Institution Masterclasses in Computer Science: Year 10, 2021

Week 4, 26 June: Computational Biology

Today's programme

The agenda for today's session is detailed below, and also available here as a pdf.

Part I

1) 9.30-9.45: Introduction
Computational Biology and Computer Models of the Action Potential

2) 9.45-10.45: Hands-on
The Hodgkin & Huxley model

Today we will be using Octave Online, not Replit. For this practical session you will need this PDF instructions sheet, and this link to the files on Octave Online. In case that link doesn’t work, here are the files (zipped) to work with.

Here is a link to the online solutions for this practical.

Break (15 mins)

Part II

3) 11:00-11:15: Introduction (2nd part)
Computer Models of the Heart and Drug Safety Testing

4) 11.15-11:45: Hands-on
Human in Silico Drug Trials

For this practical session you will need this new PDF instructions sheet, plus this link to the files on Octave Online. In case that link doesn’t work, here are the files (zipped) to work with.

Here is a link to the online solutions for this practical.

Summary and Conclusions

Preparation for next week

Professor Peter Millican, who will be leading the session next week, has asked that you do a little bit of preparation ahead of the session. Take a look at the page for next week for details.

Who will I meet during today's sessions?

The academic sessions will be led by Elisa Passini. From the Computer Science staff side, working across the Year 9 and 10 corhots, we have Sarah Baldwin and Isaac Dunn. We also have two student ambassadors: Ned and Adam. We've put together a page where you can find out more about some of the people you will meet regularly during the RIMC programme.

End of day mini-feedback form

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