Description

A personal school project to model the behaviour of the human immune system as a network graph with interactive visualisation.

Written in JavaScript using the p5.js library.

For the first-release MVP, nodes and links are coded into sketch.js. A user can step through stages of the immune response to an attack using a menu and see the different interactions between critical components of each stage of the immune response.

Installation

Either use git (if you have git installed):

• Clone this repo to your local environment
• The HTML and JavaScript code is in the html folder.

Or download the packaged zip archive from this GitHub website:

• Click on the html.zip file and use the GitHub Download button to download the zip archive
• extract the zip archive in a folder where you want to run the utility from
• The extract includes an html folder with the HTML and JavaScript code.

Usage

The tool can be started by loading the ./html/index.html file in a browser. Usually this can be done by just double-clicking on the file in a Windows or Mac file browser.

Cells, proteins and pathogens are represented as "nodes" in a graph topology.

Click on a Node to rearrange its position or to view information about it.

Select a walk-through from the bottom-left menu box.
Use the navigator arrows in the bottom-left menu box to step through the stages of an immune response.

The key in the top-left corner can be used to identify the core functions of each component of the immune system as well as the types of interactions between the different nodes.

Screenshots

Contributing

As this is a school project, I am not accepting contributions at this stage. You are welcome to fork the project under the terms of GNU GPL license for this project.