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MOOSE, the Multiscale Object-Oriented Simulation Environment

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MOOSE (Multiscale Object-Oriented Simulation Environment) is a general-purpose biological simulator with an emphasis on systems biology and computational neuroscience.

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Introduction

Mathematical modeling and computer simulations constitute an increasingly important approach for understanding complex biological systems. MOOSE is a modern, free, and open-source software designed for the modeling and simulation of a wide range of detailed biological phenomena spanning many spatial and temporal scales. MOOSE uses standard C++ with a variety of open-source libraries and currently runs on laptops, workstations, and large parallel machines that support Linux.

This section explains the basic features of MOOSE by examining the terms in its acronym: Multiscale Object-Oriented Simulation Environment.

MOOSE is a multiscalesimulator. This means that it can simulate processes at many levels of detail and at many timescales. This includes the movement and interactions...

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  1. National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bellary Road, Bangalore, 560065, India

    Niraj Dudani, Dr. Upinder S. Bhalla & Dr. Subhasis Ray

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  1. Niraj Dudani
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  1. Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Dieter Jaeger

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

    Ranu Jung

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Dudani, N., Bhalla, U.S., Ray, S. (2014). MOOSE, the Multiscale Object-Oriented Simulation Environment. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_257-1

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