Editorial: proceedings of The Second International Conference of the French-speaking Society for Theoretical Biology (original) (raw)
These meeting are still held in years where the International Conference is not taking place. During the Annual Meetings and the International Conferences, the participation of students is emphasized by the attribution of a prize for best student poster and/or presentation. In Winnipeg, the René Thom prize was awarded for the first time (Thom was a founding member of SFBT). Recipients of the prize were Virginie LeRolle (best presentation) and Peng T. (Troy) Teo (best poster). The range of topics discussed during SFBT events is quite broad, covering many aspects of theoretical biology ranging from complex mathematical and physical problems to philosophical considerations. The articles published in this special issue serve to illustrate this diversity. Jacques Demongeot considers the notion of biological age, which he opposes to the notion of chronological age. He argues that the number of divisions that a cell has undergone and can still undergo is better suited for the description of cell age, but also of organ age, and presents applications of this notion in various contexts. Alexander Dibrov et al's contribution deals with a problem of computational chemistry in the Life Sciences. They propose a new method to rank protein-protein interaction models using free energy minimization and present a rational method for
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