Title
The Cell Collective: toward an open and collaborative approach to systems biology.
Abstract
Despite decades of new discoveries in biomedical research, the overwhelming complexity of cells has been a significant barrier to a fundamental understanding of how cells work as a whole. As such, the holistic study of biochemical pathways requires computer modeling. Due to the complexity of cells, it is not feasible for one person or group to model the cell in its entirety.The Cell Collective is a platform that allows the world-wide scientific community to create these models collectively. Its interface enables users to build and use models without specifying any mathematical equations or computer code - addressing one of the major hurdles with computational research. In addition, this platform allows scientists to simulate and analyze the models in real-time on the web, including the ability to simulate loss/gain of function and test what-if scenarios in real time.The Cell Collective is a web-based platform that enables laboratory scientists from across the globe to collaboratively build large-scale models of various biological processes, and simulate/analyze them in real time. In this manuscript, we show examples of its application to a large-scale model of signal transduction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1186/1752-0509-6-96
BMC systems biology
Keywords
DocType
Volume
bioinformatics,algorithms,systems biology
Journal
6
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1752-0509
14
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.77
8
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tomáš Helikar1747.13
Bryan Kowal2432.16
Sean McClenathan3140.77
Mitchell Bruckner4140.77
Thaine Rowley5261.96
Alex Madrahimov6140.77
Ben Wicks7431.82
Manish Shrestha8140.77
Kahani Limbu9140.77
Jim A Rogers10302.25