Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0344996

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0344996

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Structure and informatics of the genetic code. Recent advances in biotechnology have seen its emergence as a highly quantitative, numerically-based discipline. To exploit the available data to the full will require, alongside computing power, new analytical techniques. This project aims to develop such techniques, by handling the systematics of the genetic code with methods derived from theoretical physics and chemistry. Expected outcomes include a dynamical (quantum field theory) model of phylogenetic branching, analyses of nucleic acid structure and content (spin chain models of RNA binding and of DNA open reading frames), and insights into the origin of the code itself (via numerical codon similarity measures).

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-2003

End Date: 12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $253,035.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Theoretical Physics | Theoretical And Computational Chemistry Not Elsewhere Classified | Mathematical Physics | Biological Mathematics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences | Physical sciences | Mathematical sciences |

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