Development of a support tool for multi-agent based biological modeling

In late years physiomic modeling of biological organisms are performed flourishingly. However enormous labor is required for performing such a large-scale and complicated biological model development. We were aimed at developing a software tool which could reduce a burden of the model developers who try to build such a model. At first we defined the data structure that could describe structure and functions of modules consisting of biological organisms. Then we designed the base classes which expressed the data structure. A whole model would be realized by connecting a number of modules that realize the functioning of the base classes. By applying our tool to concrete model developments for a cardiac cell and a single ionic channel, we examined utility and effectiveness of the tool for modeling on a multi-scale