BioDynaMo: a modular platform for high-performance agent-based simulation.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Agent-based modeling is an indispensable tool for studying complex biological systems. However, existing simulation platforms do not always take full advantage of modern hardware and often have a field-specific software design.

Results

We present a novel simulation platform called BioDynaMo that alleviates both of these problems. BioDynaMo features a modular and high-performance simulation engine. We demonstrate that BioDynaMo can be used to simulate use cases in: neuroscience, oncology and epidemiology. For each use case, we validate our findings with experimental data or an analytical solution. Our performance results show that BioDynaMo performs up to three orders of magnitude faster than the state-of-the-art baselines. This improvement makes it feasible to sim

SUBMITTER: Breitwieser L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8723141 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature