An application programming interface for the widely used academic version of the UVA/Padova Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Metabolic Simulator

Abstract

The UVA/Padova Type 1 Diabetes Simulator is a widely applied tool to test control algorithms among diabetes researchers. The academic version is implemented in Matlab; while Matlab is very popular in the academic field, Python is the most popular programming language. We developed an application programming interface (API) for the simulator in Python, and a representational state transfer (REST) API for additional extension route with a Python reference implementation for easier usage. The interface is designed with the specific purpose of testing control algorithms, thus it maps the functionalities that are needed to implement closed-loop control and virtual patient simulation. The developed API is tested for different simulation scenarios, showcasing identical results between the API and the programming interface of the original simulator. Additional information and the source code can be found in https://github.com/NeuroDiab/UVAPadovaAPI.