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Title: Learning-accelerated discovery of immune-tumour interactions

Journal Article · · Molecular Systems Design & Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/c9me00036d · OSTI ID:1574308

We present an integrated framework for enabling dynamic exploration of design spaces for cancer immunotherapies with detailed dynamical simulation models on high-performance computing resources. Our framework combines PhysiCell, an open source agent-based simulation platform for cancer and other multicellular systems, and EMEWS, an open source platform for extreme-scale model exploration. We build an agent-based model of immunosurveillance against heterogeneous tumours, which includes spatial dynamics of stochastic tumour–immune contact interactions. We implement active learning and genetic algorithms using high-performance computing workflows to adaptively sample the model parameter space and iteratively discover optimal cancer regression regions within biological and clinical constraints.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Science Foundation (NSF); National Institutes of Health (NIH); USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1574308
Journal Information:
Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, Journal Name: Molecular Systems Design & Engineering Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 4; ISSN 2058-9689; ISSN MSDEBG
Publisher:
Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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