We are pleased to launch a new, improved version of WholeCell.org. The new version includes an introduction to the goals and motivations for whole-cell modeling, an overview of how researchers are approaching whole-cell modeling, links to whole-cell models and whole-cell modeling tools, and links to meetings, articles, and lectures about whole-cell modeling.

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Jonathan Karr, Damjana Kastelic, Maria Lluch-Senar, and Luis Serrano received funding from EMBO for the third WC modeling school in April 2019. With EMBO support, the school will be expanded to 7 days.

The NIBIB has funded the new Center for Reproducible Biomedical Modeling to develop new methods and software tools for systematically and scalable building biomodels, including whole-cell models. The center is a joint effort among Herbert Sauro and John Gennari at the University of Washington; Jonathan Karr and Arthur Goldberg at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Ion Moraru, James Schaff, and Michael Blinov at the University of Connecticut; and David Nickerson at the University of Auckland.

SysMod announced a fantastic group of keynote speakers for this years meeting: Andrew Levchenko (Yale), Peter Sorger (Harvard), and John Tyson (Virginia Tech). See the meeting website for more information .

The Karr Lab published a perspective in Current Opinion in Biotechnology on the challenges of whole-cell modeling and emerging efforts to address these challenges through the development of new computational methods and software tools. See the perspective for more information .

The Karr Lab published a three-phase blueprint for achieving human WC models. The blueprint was based on their experience developing bacteria models, as well as a community survey of the bottlenecks to more predictive models. See the perspective for more information .