Glucosim: educational software for virtual experiments with patients with type 1 diabetes.

GLUCOSIM is an educational software package that simulates blood glucose and insulin dynamics in healthy individuals and patients with type 1 diabetes. It is being used to assist biomedical and chemical engineering students in visualizing the dynamic variations in blood glucose concentration in response to external variations such as food consumption and insulin administration. A nutritional database has been integrated to GLUCOSIM to provide meal inputs to the simulation. The simulator has been improved by the modification of mathematical models, and it has been adapted to include currently available commercial insulin brands.