Chaste: Using agile programming techniques to develop computational biology software

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1878, 2008, Pages 3111-3136

  Pitt Francis, Joe ^a   Bernabeu, Miguel O ^a   Cooper, Jonathan ^a   Garny, Alan ^a   Momtahan, Lee ^a   Osborne, James ^a   Pathmanathan, Pras ^a   Rodriguez, Blanca ^a   Whiteley, Jonathan P ^a   Gavaghan, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac electrophysiological modelling; High performance computing; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CODES (STANDARDS); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

AGILE METHODS; AGILE PROGRAMMING; CARDIAC ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY; CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL MODELLING; CARDIAC MODELLING; CASE STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENT METHODS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; NEW APPROACHES; NUMERICAL - TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; RE SEARCH GROUP; SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SIMULATION SOFTWARES; SOFT TISSUES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS;

SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 48349125992     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0096     Document Type: Article

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