npj Systems Biology and Applications (Jan 2017)

HD Physiology Project—Japanese efforts to promote multilevel integrative systems biology and physiome research

  • Kazuharu Furutani,
  • Kunichika Tsumoto,
  • Yoshihisa Kurachi,
  • for HD physiology project investigators

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41540-016-0001-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Abstract The HD Physiology Project is a Japanese research consortium that aimed to develop methods and a computational platform in which physiological and pathological information can be described in high-level definitions across multiple scales of time and size. During the 5 years of this project, an appropriate software platform for multilevel functional simulation was developed and a whole-heart model including pharmacokinetics for the assessment of the proarrhythmic risk of drugs was developed. In this article, we outline the description and scientific strategy of this project and present the achievements and influence on multilevel integrative systems biology and physiome research.