Agent-based modelling tool for bacterial populations in systems and synthetic biology
BSim is an agent-based modelling tool designed to allow for the study of bacterial populations. By enabling the description of bacterial behaviours, it attempts to provide an environment in which to investigate how local interactions between individual bacterium leads to the emergence of population level features, such as cooperation and synchronisation.
An overview of the main feature of BSim are described below:
We thank for following funders for their support
What is BSim being used to study?
Synchronisation of Coupled Repressilators
Programmed Multicellular Consortium
Complex Micro-Scale Environments
Computing with Cellular Populations
For more examples of how BSim is being used in research and education check out the Gallery »
Keep up to date or get stuck in
To find out what is happening with current releases or to ask development questions, see our GitHub repository »
BSim in the news
BSim began life as part of the BCCS-Bristol entry into the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition and played a major role in several awards:
Making use of BSim in your work?
If you have made use of BSim in academic or commercial work, please reference the following papers:
Distribute and build on our work
BSim is distributed under the Open Source Initiative (OSI) recognised MIT licence. More details »