Title
The BioDynaMo Project.
Abstract
Computer simulations have become a very powerful tool for scientific research. Given the vast complexity that comes with many open scientific questions, a purely analytical or experimental approach is often not viable. For example, biological systems (such as the human brain) comprise an extremely complex organization and heterogeneous interactions across different spatial and temporal scales. In order to facilitate research on such problems, the BioDynaMo project (\url{https://biodynamo.web.cern.ch/}) aims at a general platform for computer simulations for biological research. Since the scientific investigations require extensive computer resources, this platform should be executable on hybrid cloud computing systems, allowing for the efficient use of state-of-the-art computing technology. This paper describes challenges during the early stages of the software development process. In particular, we describe issues regarding the implementation and the highly interdisciplinary as well as international nature of the collaboration. Moreover, we explain the methodologies, the approach, and the lessons learnt by the team during these first stages.
Year
Venue
DocType
2016
CoRR
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1607.02717
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roman Bauer100.34
Lukas Breitwieser251.88
Alberto Di Meglio3183.47
Leonard Johard4114.91
Marcus Kaiser5225.54
Marco Manca69918.13
Manuel Mazzara749364.05
Max Talanov8248.64