Center for Quantiative Biological Simulation Microphysiology Gateway

About CQBS

The Center for Quantitative Biological Simulation (CQBS) is housed in the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).  The CQBS is directed by Joel R. Stiles, M.D., Ph.D., a computational physiologist with faculty appointments in the Mellon College of Science and Department of Biology at CMU, and the Departments of Neuroscience and Computational Biology at the University of Pittsburgh.  Prof. Stiles is also a senior research scientist and core research leader in the National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing (NRBSC) at the PSC.

The CQBS includes professional staff with backgrounds in biology, computer and information science, physics, engineering, and education, as well as fellows and trainees at pre- and postdoctoral levels.  Research efforts encompass large scale, high performance programming development, predominantly MCell, PSC_DX, and DReAMM, and their application to quantitative modeling and simulation in a variety of biological settings.  Education efforts encompass workshops on spatially realistic cell modeling conducted with the NRBSC, as well as extensive web-based technical and scientific tutorials and reference information on in-house software and computational microphysiology applications (read more).