Toward scalable whole-cell modeling of human cells

Arthur P. Goldberg, Yin Hoon Chew, Jonathan R. Karr

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Abstract

Whole-cell (WC) models comprehensively predict cellular phenotypes by simulating the biochemistry in individual cells. WC models have the potential to enable bioengineers and physicians to rationally design microorganisms and medical therapies. WC models are developed by combining multiple mathematically distinct pathway sub-models into a single multi-algorithm model. The only existing WC model represents a small bacterium. However, to enable medical therapy, new scalable methods are needed to model human cells that contain 100 times more molecular species and 10,000-100,000 times more molecules. We describe the design of a novel system for building and simulating WC models, including an expressive sequence- and rule-based modeling language and a multi-algorithm simulator that employs optimistic parallel discrete event simulation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGSIM-PADS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 Annual ACM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages259-262
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450337427
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 May 2016
Event2016 Annual ACM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation, SIGSIM-PADS 2016 - Banff, Canada
Duration: 15 May 201618 May 2016

Publication series

NameSIGSIM-PADS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 Annual ACM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation

Conference

Conference2016 Annual ACM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation, SIGSIM-PADS 2016
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityBanff
Period15/05/1618/05/16

Keywords

  • Modeling human cells
  • Optimistic parallel discrete event simulation
  • Systems biology
  • Time warp
  • Whole-cell modeling

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