Directed Evolution: Biological systems are inherently complex in nature. One can dissect this complexity by transforming a biological system in to an equivalent engineering system. Once we are done with this transformation we can use the well established engineering principles to gain a better understanding of the biological systems. So the problem now lies in identifying the components in biological systems akin to engineering systems. To address this problem we are constructing a library of biological motifs (e.g., oscillators, filters, toggle switches etc.) by using in silico evolution techniques.

Software used to evolve the networks can be downloaded from here: SourceCode.tar

Presentation file can be downloaded from here: Modularity.pdf