The preDiCT project officially launched 1 June 2008, with a mission to model, simulate, and ultimately predict the impact of pharmacological compounds on the heart's rhythm using computer models. This will require advances beyond the current state-of-the-art in:
- Mathematical models of individual ion channels, which control how and when cells contract;
- Tissue models, which encapsulate chemical processes and physical relationships at millions of separate points in the heart; and
- The computer code, which must compute these relationships as a series of complex equations, to enable faster-than-real-time simulation of a beating heart.
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