End-to-End Framework for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Analysis

The need to understand and characterize the risks posed to humans due to electromagnetic emitters has motivated the development of several high-fidelity simulation packages able to model the physical effects of electromagnetic radiation impinging on biological tissues. These simulation packages support large numbers of input parameters, make use of custom input and output file formats, and often require the use of high-performance computing resources. Consequently, the functionality of these tools is often inaccessible to analysts that lack extensive programming and physical modeling experience. Galaxy is a scientific workflow system that provides access to multiple pre-configured tools that can be linked together through an easy-to-use interface. Several electromagnetic propagation software packages are already part of Galaxy instances hosted by Air Force Research Laboratory. Yet, analysts are currently unable to accelerate analyses on the biological effects of electromagnetic radiation using Galaxy because existing bioeffects codes lack Galaxy support. Nanohmics, Inc. proposes to extend the capabilities of current Galaxy instances to include end-to-end analysis of the biological effects of electromagnetic emitters at optical and radio frequencies by developing the Galaxy EM Bioeffects Application Integration Suite, a suite of Galaxy integration tools for government-owned bioeffects codes and existing 3D posable human models.