McComedy

McComedy simulates individual-based dynamics of microbial consumer-resource systems to investigate mechanistic interactions and emergent community behavior.

Key Features:

• Modular Design: Provides a flexible framework combining pre-implemented building blocks that represent physical and biological processes.
• Individual-based Mechanistic Simulation: Simulates behavior and interactions of individual entities using predefined mechanistically sound rules.
• Emergent Dynamics Capture: Produces emergent population and community dynamics from individual-level rules that reflect ecological processes.
• Reproducibility and Validation: Can replicate results of existing studies and has been validated against two distinct literature cases.

Scientific Applications:

• Ecological Research: Investigating ecological mechanisms that drive microbial community and consumer-resource dynamics.
• Educational Purposes: Teaching and exploring concepts of individual-based and consumer-resource ecological modeling.

Methodology:

Simulating individual entities based on predefined mechanistic rules within a modular framework of pre-implemented physical and biological building blocks, with validation by reproducing two literature case studies.