Advances in Digital Biology

A cool new project has come up on Kickstarter concerning Caenorhabitis elegans, also known as roundworms or nematodes. The Caenorhabitis elegans consist of 900 cells with a third of them neurons. The goal is to develop a simulation for the entire elegan organism down to the cellular level. It is an opensource project meaning that anyone can get involved and view the code themselves. So far they have raised $30,000 of their $120,000 goal. Hopefully they will eventually make it so you can run it on a website without having to download it to your computer. Probably the hardest part of the project would be to make it so the program can run smoothly on a computer while performing all of the cellular processes. So far they have enough to have the worm contract muscles. Still a long way to go. I’m really looking forward to messing around with this. For more information check it out at engaget .