Computational Community
As we transition from a descriptive to a mechanistic approach that reveals principles of cells, cellular networks, organs, and emergent behavior and their interactions across several spatial and temporal scales, we will need to embrace mathematical and computational approaches to help us integrate, interrogate and visualize data to enable knowledge discovery.
To accelerate knowledge discovery we need to foster inter-disciplinary dialogue across many diverse groups and create the right ecosystem so that the diversity of talent across disciplines is all in the same virtual space, learning and working with each other.
Knowledge Engineering
Orion Bionetworks is committed to the development of resources that will enable data-sharing, data-mining, visualization and systems modeling and simulation. Many of these tools will be developed as open-source platforms and made available through the Toolbox.
Toolbox
Geppetto is a web-based multi-algorithm, multi-scale simulation platform engineered to support the simulation of complex biological systems and their surrounding environment. Geppetto’s integrative approach to biological modeling is at the heart of the Open Worm project.
The tranSMART Foundation is a global non-profit organization devoted to realizing the promise of translational biomedical research through development of the tranSMART knowledge management platform.
Orion Bionetworks, Inc. in partnership with its Alliance partner Exaptive, Inc. has created an interactive Visualization tool to help researchers interact with its growing database of brain data from multiple organizations housed in the Cloud on the TranSmart(™) platform.
Watch the video demonstration of the Orion Data Explorer tool below:
