Using high performance computing to model cellular embryogenesis

Gerard Vanloo, Kwai Wong, Chung Ng, Ben Ramsey, Zhirong Bao, Kison Osborne, Dali Wang

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Abstract

C. elegans is a primitive multicellular organism (worm) that shares many important biological characteristics that arise as complications within human beings. [1] It begins as a single cell and then undergoes a complex embryogenesis to form a complete animal. Using experimental data, the early stages of life of the cells are simulated by computers. The goal of this project is to use this simulation to compare the embryogenesis stage of C. elegans cells with that of human cells. Since the simulation involves the manipulation of many files and large amounts of data, the power provided by supercomputers and parallel programming is required.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of XSEDE 2016
Subtitle of host publicationDiversity, Big Data, and Science at Scale
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9781450347556
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 17 2016
EventConference on Diversity, Big Data, and Science at Scale, XSEDE 2016 - Miami, United States
Duration: Jul 17 2016Jul 21 2016

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume17-21-July-2016

Conference

ConferenceConference on Diversity, Big Data, and Science at Scale, XSEDE 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMiami
Period07/17/1607/21/16

Keywords

  • C. elegans
  • NetLogo
  • Parallel programing
  • RepastHPC
  • Simulation
  • VisIt

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