Cells Pseudo code

This will give a brief outline of what our simulated bacterial cells will do throughout their 'lives'. The life cycles shown here loop continuously, until it has a reason to stop (eg if it is dead).

Subtilis (Vegetative Cell)

Life Cycle

Checks if the current run has been ended.
Checks if the cell is going to die from an overdose of cadmium.
Imports some nutrients and cadmium, etc from the environment.
Checks to see if cadmium has been detected inside the cell.
- If detected, it will make a decision to be a metal sequestering cell, or not.
  - Runs a JSim instance using parameters from the cell and runs the Sin Operon CellML model.
If it is in the 'sporulating' state, advance closer to sporulating.
If there is not sufficient nutrients, size, etc to duplicate, it may decide to enter other states such as Biofilm, Motile or Spore.
If there is sufficient nutrients, size, etc to duplicate, make a daughter cell
- Creates a database request that in turn makes Microbase create a new 'job' (cell).

Motile

Life Cycle

Checks if the current run has been ended.
It may decide to become change back into the vegetative state.

Biofilm

Life Cycle

Checks if the current run has been ended.
It may decide to become change back into the vegetative state.

Spore

Life Cycle

Checks if the current run has been ended.
If it is able to germinate (ie not a cadmium sequestering spore) and correct conditions.
- Advance through a germination step.
- If all germination steps have taken place, change back into the vegetative state.