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The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack | WIRED

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One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.

Save this story Save this story The Santa Ana winds were already blowing hard when I ran the first worm simulation. I’m no hacker, but it was easy enough: Open a Terminal shell, paste some commands from GitHub, watch characters cascade down the screen. Just like in the movies. I was scanning the passing code for recognizable words— neuron , synapse —when a friend came to pick me up for dinner. “One sec,” I yelled from my office. “I’m just running a worm on my computer.” At the Korean restaurant, the energy was manic; the wind was bending palm trees at the waist and sending shopping carts skati

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