I am Pranav Ballaney, an undergraduate, studying Biology and Computer Science in India. I will be working with the National Resource for Network Biology over the summer of 2021, as part of Google Summer of Code. During the project development, I will document my progress through weekly posts on this blog, and I would love to hear your thoughts! My project this summer is about building a simulator for SBML models using Rust . Lately, Rust is being used extensively for building bioinformatics tools due to better memory management and faster execution. My project aims to demonstrate the suitability of Rust for an SBML simulator. I will start by building a parser for SBML models and then build a simulator that implements the Euler and Runge-Kutta methods. The project will especially focus on security, memory safety, performance and ease of development. Thanks for reading!