On-lattice agent-based simulation of populations of cells within the open-source Chaste framework

Interface Focus

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Figueredo, Grazziela P ^a   Joshi, Tanvi V ^a   Osborne, James M ^b   Byrne, Helen M ^b   Owen, Markus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based simulation, Multi scale model, Cancer, Lattice models, Cell cycle, Tumour hypoxia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875451582     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2012.0081     Document Type: Article

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