Immune system simulation during the CIBB 2009 congress, Genova, Italy, 15-17 October 2009

The immune system has been described as the second most complex system in the human body after the central nervous system. There have been numerous attempts to build computational models of parts of this system at the molecular, cellular and organ levels. The ImmunoGrid consortium was established in 2006 under Framework 6 to develop combined models of the human immune system at a natural scale, combining these approaches. It adopted a Grid approach in which complex, CPU-intense programs are automatically divided up between computer nodes on different sites. In this tutorial Motta and Pappalardo will present the final version of the ImmunoGrid simulator developed during this project and explain how it can be used in test cases related to immunotherapy and to vaccine scheduling and design. Participants will have an opportunity to try out the simulator themselves. The tutorial will be suitable for and accessible to bench molecular biologists and clinicians; no familiarity with modelling software or the Grid will be required.ImmunoGrid (http://www.immunogrid.org(opens in new window)) was funded by the European Commission as a STREP, project i/d FP6-2004-IST-028069.
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