SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT FOR EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN

摘要

Techniques and systems are disclosed for enabling a simulation environment for experimental design. The interactions of a configuration of molecules inside a biological structure or system, such as a cell (e.g., a neuron) or virtual test tube, are modeled using message-based techniques to communicate between molecules proximal to one another in a virtual 3-D geometric space. Some techniques and systems allow distributed processing of the individual molecular interactions across a plurality of work nodes. Some techniques and systems allow the storage of detailed information about the current state of the simulation of the biological model for each discrete time slice. This enables the ability for a 4-D playback/review of any particular spatial or temporal focus area of the simulation.