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Computational Science Laboratory

The aim of the Computational Science Lab is to pioneer new computational approaches, methods and tools to enable, make and accelerate fundamental advances in science in areas of societal importance.

Research Groups

Biological Computation Group

The Group is focused on the development and advancement of a new field that aims to transform our understanding of biology by considering biological systems as living computation, and to develop the techniques needed to design and program computation in living systems.

Computational Ecology and Environmental Science Group

The Group is focused on enabling, making and accelerating fundamental advances in our understanding of, and ability to predict the impact of future changes to, the global climate and ecological systems and processes: Earth’s life support system.

Hot-off-the-Press

Neil Dalchau awarded prestigious 2011 Tansley Medal More

Derek Tittensor co-author of new study published in PLoS Biology that revises estimate of how many species there are. More Paper

Andrew Phillips named as one of world's top innovators under 35. More

Misc.

Special feature on the Computational Science Lab in Science.

Stephen Emmott featured in Nature Medicine.

Greg McInerny's scientific visualisations exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Recent Publications

Neil Dalchau, Matthew Smith, Samuel Martin, James R Brown, Stephen Emmott, and Andrew Phillips, Towards the rational design of synthetic cells with prescribed population dynamics, in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol. In Press, The Royal Society, May 2012
Matthew Lakin, Loïc Paulevé, and Andrew Phillips, Stochastic Simulation of Multiple Process Calculi for Biology, in Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 431, pp. 181-206, Elsevier, May 2012
Matthew Lakin, Simon Youssef, Luca Cardelli, and Andrew Phillips, Abstractions for DNA circuit design, in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol. 9, no. 68, pp. 470-486, The Royal Society, March 2012
Jennifer J.H. Reynolds, Xavier Lambin, Fergus P. Massey, Stefan Reidinger, Jonathan A. Sherratt, Matthew J. Smith, Andrew White, and Sue E. Hartley, Delayed induced silica defences in grasses and their potential for destabilising herbivore population dynamics, in Oecologia, Springer, 2012
Yaki Setty, Diana Dalfó, Dorota Z. Korta, E. Jane Albert Hubbard, and Hillel Kugler, A model of stem cell population dynamics: in-silico analysis and in-vivo validation, in Development, vol. 139, pp. 47 - 56, January 2012