It is strongly advised to have completed Mathematics, Programming, Physics, Fundamentals of Biology and Biochemistry.

The main goal of the course is to acquire capabilities for modeling common biological systems using mathematical physical and computational tools. The student will be able to apply these tools for extracting quantitative information in order to understand different type of systems. Finally the student will acquire capabilities for evaluating and be objective with the results obtained from those analyses and models.

Biological Systems: The course consists of (1) enumeration of the biological components that participate in biological processes, statistical representation, interpretation and prediction of biological data, (2) reconstruction of the interactions necessary to form a network (3) mathematical representation for analysis, interpretation and prediction, especially modeling and application related to biological components involved in cellular processes (4) model validation and use of prospective design, in particular tree modeling and biological networks at the molecular level. Students will be taught quantitative modeling of biological systems: reactions between molecules, including receptor-ligand and antigen-antibody specificity, protein structure, genetic and biochemical pathways and networks, enzyme catalysis, genetic information processing and secretion of proteins, study of data related to biological systems, description and modeling of the structure and dynamics of biological components, study of interactions between molecular systems involved in biological processes, study of networks of biological and biochemical interactions contained in databases freely accessible. Advanced quantitative analysis techniques including multi-state kinetics and Monte Carlo simulations of biochemical reactors. Fundamentals of systems biology Synthetic biology.

The teaching methodology will include: - Lectures, where the concepts that students must acquire will be shown. To facilitate its development students receive class notes and have basic reference texts that will facilitate following the lessons and developing further work. These classes are designed by way of seminars. - Resolution of exercises, problems and laboratory practice to serve as self-assessment to acquire the necessary skills to perform the works corresponding to the continuous assessment, experimentally verifying the results presented in class.