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SUMMARY:Building Fast and Maintainable Software for Multi-Scale Evo-Devo S
 imulations - Pjotr van der Jagt and Steven Oud - The Sainsbury Laboratory 
 and Dept. of Genetics
DTSTART:20241205T130000Z
DTEND:20241205T140000Z
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CONTACT:Jack Atkinson
DESCRIPTION:Development involves the spatiotemporal coordination of molecu
 lar and mechanical processes which\ngive rise to an organism’s form and 
 function. Billions of years of evolution has led to the emergence of\na va
 st amount of complex and diverse life forms. Simulating the evolution of d
 evelopment (evo-devo)\nis a powerful approach to understanding how develop
 mental mechanisms are modified over evolution\nto give rise to this immens
 e diversity of life. However\, designing and implementing software to mode
 l\nthese multi-scale processes presents significant practical and computat
 ional challenges. In this talk\,\nwe will discuss our experiences and stra
 tegies in developing our own high-performance software for\nevo-devo simul
 ations.\n\nWe will explore the practical challenges encountered in writing
  and designing this software\,\nincluding the need to balance biological r
 ealism with computational efficiency\, and ensuring that the\nsoftware is 
 both scalable and flexible to accommodate a wide range of evolutionary sce
 narios. A key\nfocus of our discussion will be on the methods we employed 
 to write high-performance code capable\nof handling long evolutionary simu
 lations within feasible timeframes.\n\nThe zoom link is https://cam-ac-uk.
 zoom.us/j/81161988457?pwd=TB5DgLyL0RLQROGBA4LC9jLnlKAh5p.1 (Password 35599
 6)
LOCATION:Rayleigh Seminar Room\, Maxwell Centre\, West Cambridge
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