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Re:Own up HN: What are your craziest abandoned projects? by albertcardona on Saturday September 19, 2009 @03:42AM (#831768)
Building a cell simulator -- a biological, in-your-tissues cell, where the lowest simulated elements are exons (E), introns (I), expressed exons (Ee) and protein domains (PD), with cube-wise compartmentalization of membranes and intracellular space which contain chains of E+I, Ee, and PDs, and concentration functions for microelements like phosphates.

I wrote it in C++ and when launched with very downsized dimensions, it ate up 6 Gb of RAM and crashed with out of memory. I may try again when I can afford several hundred Gb of RAM.

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