The Open Pacing, Electrophysiology & Therapy Journal
2010, 3 : 1-3Published online 2010 November 11. DOI: 10.2174/1876536X01003010001
Publisher ID: TOPETJ-3-1
Open Source Modeling of Cardiovascular System: A Brief Overview
Micro Systems Engineering, Inc. Lake Oswego, OR 97007 USA
ABSTRACT
The open source movement, which can be traced back to the launch of the GNU Project in 1984 [1], has gained momentum since early 1990s when Linus Torvalds wrote the Linux kernel. Since then, numerous open source software (e.g., Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice, etc.) has gained popularity, and the movement has spread outside the software industry. One of the beneficiaries is the biomedicine.