October 17, 2024. Dr. Eran Agmon recently shared his insights at a John Templeton-funded workshop on Goal-Directed Systems in Bilbao, Spain. His talk, titled A Compositional Framework for Modeling Biological Agents, introduced a new approach to systems biology, advocating for modular, compositional models that better reflect the natural organization of biological systems. Dr. Agmon discussed how traditional simulations, often rigid and monolithic, fall short of capturing the dynamic interactions between subsystems that define real-life biological agents. In the compositional framework, interfaces and interconnections among subsystems play a crucial role, enabling multiscale simulations that span molecular to organismal levels.

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