Our Center carries out research & technology development; we engage in collaborative research projects with the community; we provide services for biological researchers, and dissemination and education opportunities.
Research and Technology Development
Model credibility
We are developing tools for systematically building models, including comprehensive whole-cell models. This includes tools for aggregating data for modeling and for designing models from large datasets. The development of these tools is being driven by several scientific projects which aim to develop sophisticated models of bacteria and human cells and use the models to understand cell growth and design genomes.
Model & simulation annotation
We are developing technology and methods to help scientists retrieve, understand, visualize, and then augment and merge models to model additional aspects of pathophysiology and test new hypotheses. Specifically, we are (a) developing and improving tools for model annotation, and (b) developing and testing tools for model visualization and integration.
Simulation and visualization
We are developing fast browser-based simulation and visualization tools to enable interactive evaluation of model behavior within webpages, including with journal websites next to articles which report models and/or simulation results. This will include a browser-based simulator and a browser-based plotting engine that are capable of simulating models and simulations encoded in SBML and SED-ML. These tools will provide near real-time data for interactive model exploration.
