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- Name: Aleo Mok
- Email: aleo.mok@gmail.com
- Comment: website for Bio E 131
- (unable to attach a picture because of website restriction)
A Few Things About Myself
Hi, my name is Aleo Mok. I am currently a sophomore at UC Berkeley with a Bioengineering Major with computational emphasis. (I am also considering doubling/tripling in EECS, but that's another story). I was actually born in Berkeley, but I moved away when I was just a wee little kid...and now I'm back here again. I have been in bioengineering for a while. At first, what caught my attention was the progress in prosthetic limbs. I recall watching a program on TV about a special type of prosthetic arm that reacted (however slightly) to commands from the brain. I hoped that I could join this new frontier. Now, the enthusiasm has not diminished, but I now have developed further interest in the computational aspect of bioengineering. I will probably not quench my thirst for knowledge for a while, and will continue pursuing my interests. From here on, my story remains unwritten.
Activities
- Sports
- Tennis
- Badminton
- Ping-Pong
- Squash
- Racketball
- Instruments
- Piano
- Violin
- Guitar
- Lion Dance Drums
- Societies
- Sigma Nu
- Historian (Fall 2009)
- Webpage Manager (Fall 2009)
- Asian American Association
- Historian Committee (Spring 2008)
- Theta Tau
Top 5 Favorite TV Shows
- How I Met Your Mother "It's gonna be LEGEN-wait for it...wait for it...I hope you're not lactose because it's-DARY. LEGENDARY."
- Heroes "Yat-dah!"
- Family Guy "That's naaaaaasty."
- The Office "Ooh! Ooh! That'swhatshesaidthat'swhatshesaid!"
- Big Bang Theory "Ah gravity, thou art a heartless bitch."
External Site?:Page
Computational Biology vs. Synthetic Biology
Synthetic biology is interpreted as a type of engineering biology. The goal of synthetic biology is to design and build biological systems that enhance the human way of life. To organize such vast amounts of information, it is necessary to keep track of data through computational biology. Two examples of such cases include the following:
- Redesigning of the the Type III secretion system used by Salmonella typhimurium to secrete spider silk proteins, a strong elastic biomaterial
- Production of green fluorescent protein (GLP)
Virus vs. Transposon
The term "virus" can be used in a context that is either biological or computational. In the biological sense, a virus is a microscopic agent that infects living cells to replicate. This is done by injecting DNA or RNA into a host cell. Eventually, the host cell is forced to generate viral proteins that eventually give rise to new viruses. In the computational sense, a virus is like a program that copies itself locally. It relies on passive transmission to travel from one "host" to another. Transposons are biological structures. They are sequences of DNA that jump around different locations on a single cell. As a result of this movement, transposons can be the cause of several biological mutations.
Bioinformatics Tools
- Protein structure prediction
- Ab initio protein structure prediction software
- Ab initio protein structure prediction is used to generate 3-dimensional protein models from scratch. Such operations require vast computational resources, so this has been used only for relatively small protein structures. Software for Ab initio protein structure prediction include MODELLER, I-TASSER, and RAPTOR.
- Comparative protein structure modeling software
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