Show HN: My friend's project to simulate an entire C. Elegans

Interesting .. although a similar project already exists (http://www.openworm.org/), and is, from a cursory glance, much more developed.

Oooh Exciting stuff! I've been following openworm off and on for a while now. The projects should be extremely complementary. I hope they communicate.

(This projects is going to collect a totally new dataset)

Yes, I know Stephen Larson and some of the other OpenWorm guys. In fact, I'm even a member of their organization on GitHub " rel="nofollow">https://github.com/openworm?tab=members>. Once both projects are a bit more developed, I expect ample opportunities for substantive cooperation; but for now, I'm focusing on data collection challenges, while they're focusing on simulations, visualizations, and data management.

Yeah, I haven't updated the site in a while. (This really wasn't the best time for a Hacker News blitz. I was just telling my friend that Nemaload hadn't been on HN yet, as far as I knew, and he simply decided to fix that pronto.) But there have been plenty of developments since November (when I think I last updated the site). I have access to a few candidate strains for pan-neuronal calcium imaging (though the genetic engineering is still an ongoing optimization process) and have collected a couple of large datasets, one on a light-sheet microscope and one on a light-field microscope. Much of the data is useless, and we're still working on the algorithms to extract signals from it, as well as the infrastructure for opening it up for distribution. But there will certainly be more publicly visible activity soon (June at the latest).

Sounds really interesting. You could try to secure additional funding for this project via Microryza (http://www.microryza.com/), which is a kickstarter for scientific research.