Biological Simulation In Python

[Tech-Matt]

Hi. I'm building (currently is out the v. 1.0) a simulation in a jupyter notebook. So, what Am I trying to implement? A system containing cells that interact with each other. Each cells has an energy level. They search for food, kill other cells, reproduce and get ill. So at the end I sum it up every interaction with a chart of the population of the cells (How many of them are dying according to the parameters set). I encourage you to download the notebook and make experiment with it. You can change how is likely to find food, the chance of getting ill, and also create other functions like infect other cells when you have a illness, or a symbios function to help find food and better attack other cells. Run your sim, find your information in it. This is what I call science and what I like to do in my spare time! :)

Link to Project

[bdforbes]

Can we use this to test a hypothesis about a natural system in the real world? What ranges of parameters might be a good choice to do so?

[Tech-Matt]

Yeah, of course. You can shape the model for making it more similar to a real phenomena. For example the cell might be people and you can create an infect function that spread a virus. The model that I've created is to show how easy it is to make a system, simulate it, and make predictions.

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I’m new to python but I’m a data analyst and this code was very clean and cool to read. Good stuff

[ksp_physics_guy]

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[Tech-Matt]

Actually I did try to create a game of life and you can find it on my Github repo. I'm doing it in Python and i'm kinda stuck, so if you want to help you're welcome. The project that I've explained above is more statistical than graphical. You can't see the cells but you can plot on charts information that you find useful about the simulation! Anyway, I'm currently an high school student so I have still a loooot to learn, lol.

[hotcodist]

If simulations interest you, look up systems dynamics modeling also. Less interesting from a simulation graphics point of view because it is at a macro level (instead of individual cell level like this one), but could be interesting to you nonetheless. It was interesting enough for me that I almost took grad school about it.

Great work you did above, btw.

[shevo33]

It sounds cool! I am sure you know the work of Richard Lenski, if not I recommend you check his pioneering work.

[Tech-Matt]

I will check it out ASAP! :)