Cell Studio is a platform for real-time simulation and visualization of
biological environments, aimed at biologists, biophysicists and researchers in
computational biology and systems biology.
The platform leverages on three value
propositions:
Biological Prototyping - Aid researchers in
modelling and simulating biological scenarios in silico, in order to better
understand the modelled system, and test a biological hypotheses prior to
conducting a real biological experiment;
Ease of Use - Designed to be intuitive and
approachable. Preparing an experiment is done using a graphical user interface,
while navigating it dynamically in 3D encourages intuition about processes that
are otherwise hard to grasp.
Educative - Can serve as
an educational tool to visualize a biological process in a non-orthodox manner.
Small tweaks can be used to generate a game-like, interactive educational
platform.
Using an intuitive graphical user interface, players
can feed biological data about an experimental system, be it a patch of a
tissue or a tissue culture - its 3D structure, its cellular players and its
specific rules, and then run it in real time, watching the system play out in
3D while interacting with it as they like.
Cell Studio is built to
allow easy experiment creation, with available templates. During experiments,
it is simple to stop, rewind and fast forward while changing parameters and see
their immediate effect on the simulation. While the experiment is running,
graphs that plot the dynamics of cellular populations, phenotypes, expression
levels or levels of secreted molecules are displayed.
Experiments can also be run in batch, changing
a set of parameters over a fixed range, and watching a selected set of
experiments offline.
Phys.org posted earlier today an in-depth article titled Cell
Studio: Serious Games for Immunology, covering both the platform and
the developers. As Phys.org reports:
“Researchers
at the Tel Aviv University, Israel, Dortmund University, Germany, and Arizona
State University, U.S., have collaborated to engineer an interactive 3-D
simulation in silico that can mimic in vitro, or in vivo experiments as seen
under the microscope using interactive game engines. The novel platform, known
as Cell Studio, can simulate an
organic microenvironment with biological and biophysical rules at the cellular
level. This work was recently published in AIP
Bioengineering.”
Have a taste of Cell Studio Gallery!
Real Time Experiment Visualization
T-Cell Scanning and Shrinking Cancer Cells
Real Time Experiment Visualization
Cell Split Animation
Real Time Experiment Visualization
Simulating Immune Synapse
Real Time Experiment Visualization
Clusters
Experiment Design