Computational Immunology: Models and Tools

Computational Immunology: Models and Tools is a reference book driven by immunologists to disseminate user-friendly immune modeling approaches to the immunology community. The models and tools are architected and deployed by computer scientists and modeling experts working closely with immunology experts in transdisciplinary teams. The book is based on the notes and presentations stemming from the Summer School and Symposium hosted by the Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens (MIEP) at Virginia Tech. The MIEP program integrates computational modeling, big data analytics, portal science and procedural knowledge to engineer synthetic information processing representations of the gut immune system. This new book discusses the value of computational modeling in today’s immunology research, types of models, software tools for modeling, informatics and computational infrastructure needed for connecting computer modeling and wet-lab experimentation, as well as data analytics, aggregation and visualization. Relevant immune modeling use cases will be sprinkled throughout the chapters.

About NIMML

The NIMML Institute is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit public charity foundation focused on a transdisciplinary, team-science approach to precision medicine at the interface of immunology, inflammation, and metabolism. The NIMML Institute team has led numerous large-scale transdisciplinary projects and is dedicated to solving important societal problems by combining the expertise of immunologists, computational biologists, toxicologists, modelers, translational researchers, and molecular biologists. The Institute is headquartered in Blacksburg, VA. For more information, please visit www.nimml.org or contact pio@nimml.org.