Andreas Dräger is the assistant professor for Computational Systems Biology of Infections and Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens at the University of Tübingen in Germany. His group aims to combat the spreading of antibiotics resistances by using mathematical modeling and computer simulation of bacterial systems up to entire microbiomes and host-pathogen interactions. In doing so, his group actively contributes to the advancement of various COMBINE standards.

My special interest is the computational modeling of biochemical systems. I want to investigate and understand the complex mutual influences within living systems and am convinced that methods from engineering such as modeling and simulation can help to reach this goal. My main focus comprises:

• Systems biology, in particular metabolic, signaling, and gene-regulatory networks
• Model building, simulation, and calibration using evolutionary algorithms
• Application and development of the open-source libraries JSBML, BioJava, and BioSQL
• Software products: SBMLsimulator, KEGGtranslator, SBMLsqueezer, SBML2LATEX, ProDGe, ModuleMaster, SABINE