On 20 July 2012, Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute announced successful simulation of the complete life cycle of a Mycoplasma genitalium cell, in the journal Cell. The entire organism is modeled in terms of its molecular components, integrating all cellular processes into a single model. Using object oriented programming to model the interactions of 28 categories of molecules, including DNA, RNA, proteins, and metabolites, and running on a 128 computer Linux cluster, the simulation takes 10 hours for a single M. genitalium cell to divide once—about the same time the actual cell takes—and generates half a gigabyte of data.
on 20 july 2012 stanford university and the j craig venter institute announced successful simulation of the complete life cycle of a mycoplasma genitalium cell in the journal cell the entire organism is modeled in terms of its molecular components integrating all cellular processes into a single model using object oriented programming to model the interactions of 28 categories of molecules including dna rna proteins and metabolites and running on a 128 computer linux cluster the simulation takes 10 hours for a single m genitalium cell to divide once—about the same time the actual cell takes—and generates half a gigabyte of data