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Contribute today to . Thank you! $100 $50 $25 $5 $ Next Building the first digital life form. Open source. Get Started Explore the Worm Blog Projects For real worm-geeks Worm body simulator Worms are soft and squishy. So our model has to be too. We are building in the physics of muscles, soft tissues and fluids. Because it matters. Watch a video Get the code Read the paper Enter the worm! Thanks to our Kickstarter backers we developed WormSim, an interactive way to play with the worm in your browser! Learn more Watch a video DevoWorm We're exploring the development of the worm via DevoWorm, an interdisciplinary project under the umbrella, focused on developmental processes in Nematodes and other forms of life through data analysis, visualization, and simulation. Learn more Browser We created a 3D Browser to let everybody take the worm apart. Zoom, rotate and peel back layers of a 3D worm without getting your hands dirty. Launch NeuroML Connectome Every neuron the worm has, and how they connect. Everything in its right place. Now we are bringing it to life. Explore the connectome Open source visualization and simulation platform. We are engineering Geppetto, a plug-and-play platform to power simulations of biological systems... from your web browser. Learn more Download Sources ‹ › -- Follow @openworm Tweet Enter the worm. is an open source project dedicated to creating the first virtual organism in a computer. Why? Because modeling a simple nervous system is a first step toward fully understanding complex systems like the human brain. How? By rejecting red tape and building a community of engineers, scientists, and other motivated volunteers from around the world. Latest news Tweets by @ See at Bangalore and Vienna See more coverage of in the news here . Meet with us on We use Slack to communicate and coordinate our daily activities, you are welcome to join us! For an invitation, fill out our volunteer application form . Open Science at its best. All the code, data and models produced as part of the project are open-source under the MIT licence. Source code All the code produced as part of the project is on GitHub under MIT licence. Different sub-projects are hosted in different repositories. Current progress The tasks we are currently working on are tracked on GitHub under different Milestones . Calendar When is the next hangout or event? Checkout our public calendar to find out!...