One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.
At the Korean restaurant, the energy was manic; the wind was bending palm trees at the waist and sending shopping carts skating across the parking lot. The atmosphere felt heightened and unreal, like a podcast at double speed. You’re doing, what, a cybercrime? my friend asked. Over the din, I tried to explain: No, not a worm like Stuxnet. A worm like Richard Scarry. By the time I got home it was dark, and the first sparks had already landed in Altadena.
” This could be burnout talking; spearheading an open source project on a shoestring, for any amount of time, can sap even the most dedicated idealist. It could be the deceptive complexity of C. elegans’ brain, which continues to defy easy capture. It could also just be bad timing. OpenWorm doesn’t do its own research. Instead, the project’s cohort of volunteers culls from the C. elegans literature, integrating into their simulation whatever data they can find.
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