OpenWorm - Wikipedia
OpenWorm is an international open science project for the purpose of simulating the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans at the cellular level.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Although the long-term goal is to model all 959 cells of the C. elegans, the first stage is to model the worm's locomotion by simulating the 302 neurons and 95 muscle cells. This bottom up simulation is being pursued by the OpenWorm community.
As of 2014, a physics engine called Sibernetic has been built for the project and models of the neural connectome and a muscle cell have been created in NeuroML format. A 3D model of the worm anatomy can be accessed through the web via the OpenWorm browser. The OpenWorm project is also contributing to develop Geppetto,[ 4] a web-based multi-algorithm, multi-scale simulation platform engineered to support the simulation of the whole organism.[ 5]
The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living, transparent nematode, about 1 mm in length,[ 6] that lives in temperate soil environments. It is the type species of its genus.[ 7]
