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Worms (C. elegans specifically) have specific well-documented responses to certain stimuli. You can apply those same stimuli to your simulated worm and see if i
by rcthompson 14y ago
Worms (C. elegans specifically) have specific well-documented responses to certain stimuli. You can apply those same stimuli to your simulated worm and see if it responds like a typical real worm.
- gouranga 14y agoSort of like a wormy unit test. Strange thought!
- rcthompson 14y agoActually that's pretty much what they are. There us a whole battery of stimulus stimulus-response tests that are essentially used as a regression test suite to figure out what deleterious (or even beneficial) effect a given mutation has. Of course these "tests" must be manually carried out by researchers on live worms.