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Vito Volterra
Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist (1860-1940)
mathematical biology
branch of biology which employs theoretical analysis, mathematical models and abstractions of the living organisms

Folding@home
Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project aimed to help scientists develop new therapeutics for a variety of diseases by the means of simulating protein dynamics. This includes the process of protein folding and the movements of proteins, and is reliant on simulations run on volunteers' personal computers. Folding@home is currently based at the University of Pennsylvania and led by Greg Bowman, a former student of Vijay Pande.
computational neuroscience
study of brain function in terms of the information processing properties of the structures that make up the nervous system
Allee effect
phenomenon in biology
theoretical ecology
scientific discipline devoted to the study of ecological systems using theoretical methods
What Is Life?
1944 non-fiction work by Erwin Schrödinger
gene prediction
process of identifying the regions of genomic DNA
Neil Ferguson
British epidemiologist
free energy principle
hypothesis in neuroscience proposed by Karl Friston
Paradox of the plankton
ecological observation of high plankton diversity despite competition for few resources

epidemiological modeling
using a mathematical model to understand infectious disease transmission and predict the likely outcome of an epidemic
Cytoscape
Cytoscape is an open source bioinformatics software platform for visualizing molecular interaction networks and integrating with gene expression profiles and other state data. Additional features are available as plugins. Plugins are available for network and molecular profiling analyses, new layouts, additional file format support and connection with databases and searching in large networks. Plugins may be developed using the Cytoscape open Java software architecture by anyone and plugin community development is encouraged. Cytoscape also has a JavaScript-centric sister project named Cytosca
Population viability analysis
ecological method to measure species extinction risk
Metabolic control analysis
analysing how the control of fluxes and intermediate concentrations in a metabolic pathway is distributed
modelling biological systems
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Mariel Vázquez
Mexican mathematical biologist
ecosystem model
model for simulation of ecological relations and effects
Fixation index
Measure of population differentiation
Haldane's dilemma
limit on the speed of beneficial evolution, first calculated by J. B. S. Haldane in 1957, and clarified further by later commentators
mathematical physiology
mathematical approaches to studying physiological systems

On Growth and Form
book by D'Arcy Thompson
DNA sequencing theory
biological theory
Breath gas analysis
monitoring volatile organic compounds present in the exhaled breath
Integrodifference equation
recurrence equation on a function space, that involves integration