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Re:Simulation of a 2B-atom cell that metabolizes and grows l... by Frost1x on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:30AM (#30115018)
It doesn't appear to be ab initio simulated (e.g. QED up) if that's what you're asking. They appear to swoop in at higher scales (molecular level) and simulate molecular interactions across "hundreds of molecular species" and "thousands of reactions."

Apparently the interface between molecules uses the Chemical Master Equations (CME) and Reaction-Diffusion Master Equations (RDME) both of which I'm unfamiliar with: http://faculty.scs.illinois.edu/schulten/lm/download/lm23/Us...

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Re:Simulation of a 2B-atom cell that metabolizes and grows l... by dahart on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:46AM (#30116076)
Yes, this appears to be the underlying simulation software. Here’s a home page link to the project as well: http://faculty.scs.illinois.edu/schulten/Software2.0.html

“Lattice Microbes is a software package for efficiently sampling trajectories from the chemical and reaction-diffusion master equations (CME/RDME) on high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure using both exact and approximate methods.”

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Re:Simulation of a 2B-atom cell that metabolizes and grows l... by vasili111 on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:23AM (#30116718)
For anyone who is wondering what QED is: Quantum electrodynamics (QED) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics
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Re:Simulation of a 2B-atom cell that metabolizes and grows l... by kingcharles on Friday January 28, 2022 @01:10PM (#30118289)
Ah, should have realized when Quad Erat Demonstradum made no sense...!
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Re:Simulation of a 2B-atom cell that metabolizes and grows l... by tobmlt on Friday January 28, 2022 @07:46PM (#30122543)
I've always imagined Feynman making a QED, QED joke sometime in the late 1940's for this very reason. Like he could end his Shelter Island Conference talk with the joke and then look up from the blackboard... to a bunch of confused and deeply furrowed brows, lol.
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