Pedro Mendes / 01/09/07 / Page 1 OttoW07-Mendes-1 Optimization and Parameter Analysis Pedro Mendes School of Computer Science and MCISB, University of Manchester, UK http://www.comp-sys-bio.org Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, VA http://mendes.vbi.vt.edu Otto Warburg International Summer School and Workshop on Computational Systems Biology August 27 to September 5, 2007 Harnack House, Berlin