MSM Viral Pandemics meetings
May 2, 2023 Meeting
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Randy Heiland, Indiana University.
OpenVT – A Standardized Ecosystem for Virtual Tissue Simulation
We present an overview, initial progress, and plans for Open Virtual Tissues (OpenVT), a NSF-funded project that seeks to improve the ecosystem of multicellular modeling frameworks. There exist several such frameworks, covering different fundamental modeling approaches, programming languages, model specification formats, workflows, varying degrees of user support, etc. This presents challenges to new modelers who want to understand what these frameworks can do (or can't do) and also to experienced modelers who would like to "reproduce" model results using more than one framework. Indiana University leads two of the frameworks, CompuCell3D and PhysiCell (PIs Glazier and Macklin), providing a hub of initial activity: seeking shared concepts, modules, data formats/standards, and reproducibility. However, the project also includes other modeling frameworks as we want this to be a community effort.
The OpenVT project kicked off with an intensive NSF I-Corps program which we will also briefly summarize.