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Biosimulant is a platform for discovering, running, and packaging biological simulations. Pick the surface that matches what you want to do today; all four paths share the same model formats, package refs, and simulation engine underneath.

Choose your starting point

Not sure? Scientists exploring published models should start with the Web quickstart. Model authors should start with Python. Platform teams should use the Developer API, and local workflow or plugin authors should install Desktop.

How it works

Biosimulant is a unified framework for running biology models across any standard. The runtime does not care whether your model is an SBML pathway, a CellML cardiac cell, a NeuroML neuron, an ONNX inference module, or a few lines of Python. They all compose against the same contract.

The contract is BioModule. Subclass it. Declare your inputs() and outputs() as named ports with units. Implement advance_window(start, end) to move your state forward across one communication window. Return your outputs from get_outputs().

Any other module that follows the same contract can plug into yours. Connect model_a.outputs.glucose to model_b.inputs.glucose and the runtime handles unit checks, time alignment, and signal delivery. That is the entire framework.

Once you’ve finished one quickstart, the How-To Guides cover task-specific workflows (manifests, packaging, Labs Serve UI, BioWorld composition) and the References cover the API and schemas in detail.