openworm/OpenWorm

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

OpenWorm is an open-source project building a comprehensive bottom-up computational model of the Caenorhabditis elegans roundworm, integrating a nervous system model (c302) with a soft-body physics model (Sibernetic). This repository provides the main Dockerfile bundling the full OpenWorm simulation stack so it can be run on any machine with Docker.

Use cases

• simulate a virtual c. elegans worm on my computer
• run a whole-organism biological simulation in docker
• model a simple nervous system and see behavior emerge
• visualize neuron and muscle activity of a simulated worm
• generate movies and graphs of worm body movement
• explore computational neuroscience of a connectome
• study soft-body physics of muscles and tissues in simulation

When to choose

• you want to run the full OpenWorm simulation stack without manual setup
• you are a researcher or student studying c. elegans or computational neuroscience
• you want reproducible, containerized biological simulations
• you want to explore emergent behavior from bottom-up organism models

When to avoid

• you need a fast, lightweight tool - the simulation is computationally heavy and default runtimes are limited
• you need a production-grade application rather than a research project
• you want a polished end-user product rather than a scientific software stack
• you are not comfortable with Docker or command-line tooling

Facets

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simulation data-visualization machine-learning bioinformatics simulation artificial-intelligence windows cross-platform computational-biology c-elegans digital-organism neuroscience docker-image open-science soft-body-physics connectome research docker linux macos

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