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Chaste: A test-driven approach to software development for biological modelling

J Pitt-Francis, P Pathmanathan, MO Bernabeu, R Bordas, J Cooper, AG Fletcher, GR Mirams, P Murray, JM Osborne, A Walter, SJ Chapman, A Garny, I van Leeuwen, PK Maini, B Rodríguez, SL Waters, JP Whiteley, HM Byrne and DJ Gavaghan

Abstract

Chaste (‘Cancer, heart and soft-tissue environment’) is a software library and a set of test suites for computational simulations in the domain of biology. Current functionality has arisen from modelling in the fields of cancer, cardiac physiology and soft-tissue mechanics. It is released under the LGPL 2.1 licence. Chaste has been developed using agile programming methods. The project began in 2005 when it was reasoned that the modelling of a variety of physiological phenomena required both a generic mathematical modelling framework, and a generic computational/simulation framework. The Chaste project evolved from the Integrative Biology (IB) e-Science Project, an inter-institutional project aimed at developing a suitable IT infrastructure to support physiome-level computational modelling, with a primary focus on cardiac and cancer modelling.

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Journal

Computer Physics Communications

Month

December

Number

12

Pages

2452-2471

Volume

180

Year

2009

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DOI (10.1016/j.cpc.2009.07.019)

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