Multicell simulations of development and disease using the CompuCell3D simulation environment

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 500, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 361-428

  Swat, MacIej H ^b   Hester, Susan D ^b   Balter, Ariel I ^b   Heiland, Randy W ^b   Zaitlen, Benjamin L ^b   Glazier, James A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cell growth; Cell sorting; Chemotaxis; CompuCell3D; Computational biology; Developmental biology; GGH; Glazier Graner Hogeweg model; Mitosis; Multicell modeling; Tissue level modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 65649123077     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-525-1_13     Document Type: Article

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