[Neuroinfo] OpenWorm: new paper and an afternoon with the project in London

[Padraig Gleeson]

Dear list members,

We are proud to announce the publication of a new paper giving an 
overview of the work to date in the OpenWorm project:

Szigeti B, Gleeson P, Vella M, Khayrulin S, Palyanov A, Hokanson J, 
Currie M, Cantarelli M, Idili G and Larson S (2014). *OpenWorm: an 
open-science approach to modelling Caenorhabditis elegans*. Frontiers in 
Computational Neuroscience 
<http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2014.00137/abstract>. 
8:137. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2014.00137

The OpenWorm project <http://www.openworm.org/science.html> is a unique 
experiment in open science with the aim of creating a computational 
model of the nematode C. elegans which incorporates unprecedented levels 
of biological and physical detail. The model will be freely available as 
open source software from the start and will incorporate known details 
of the neuronal and muscular systems as well as an advanced fluid 
mechanics simulation engine for body-environment interactions.

The work is carried out by an international team of neuroscientists and 
computer programmers, mostly on a voluntary basis. A successful 
Kickstarter funding campaign in May 2014 is accelerating the goal of 
making this model accessible to anyone through their web browser.


For anyone *in the London area**on 6th November*, there will be a public 
presentation of OpenWorm at UCL 
<https://plus.google.com/events/cvp58gp0s3er8t8g9756k6vn0u4>. This will 
outline the aims of the project, the resources which are currently 
available and future plans for the initiative.

After the presentation there will be an open discussion session where 
the OpenWorm Core Team will be present to answer any questions related 
to the project, to help with installing the software produced by the 
initiative, or to discuss incorporating your experimental data into the 
model.

The OpenWorm Core Team

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Padraig Gleeson
Room 321, Anatomy Building
Department of Neuroscience, Physiology&  Pharmacology
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

+44 207 679 3214
p.gleeson at ucl.ac.uk
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