# openworm/OpenWorm

Repository for the main Dockerfile with the OpenWorm software stack and project-wide issues

Repository: https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/openworm
Homepage: http://openworm.org
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: openworm, elegans, biology, simulation
Last push: 2026-08-04T10:20:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 81/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 52, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5023, "days_push": 29, "days_rel": 162, "gap_med": 108, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3037, forks 245 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:39.159004+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: simulation, data-visualization, machine-learning
- domain: bioinformatics, simulation, artificial-intelligence
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: computational-biology, c-elegans, digital-organism, neuroscience, docker-image, open-science, soft-body-physics, connectome, research, docker, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- openworm/OpenWorm (main) score 81

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:39.159004+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:29:27.600403+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:39.159004+00:00, sha 28efa945e3f7)
  - homepage: http://openworm.org (fetched 2026-08-29T09:44:29.715865+00:00, sha d51977d002c1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.