Multicellular Frameworks

NOTE: Cellular Potts Model (CPM) is also known as the Glazier-Graner-Hogeweg (GGH) model.

Name Model Type Description Website
Artistoo CPM/GGH A framework for Cellular Potts Models that lets you build interactive, explorable simulation models of cells and tissues in the web browser using Javascript. link
BioDynaMo Center Model Software platform to easily create, run, and visualise 3D agent-based simulations link
CompuCell3D CPM/GGH A flexible and extensible simulation environment for multi-cellular systems biology, including the use of cellular Potts models. link
Chaste Multi-Method: CPM/GGH, Center Model, Vertex Model, FE Chaste (Cancer, Heart and Soft Tissue Environment) is a general-purpose simulation package aimed at simulating biological systems, particularly focusing on cardiac, cancer, and soft tissue modeling. link
Hybrid Automata Library (HAL) Multi-Method A Java library that facilitates hybrid modeling: spatial models with interacting agent-based and PDE components, commonly used for oncology modeling. link
Morpheus CPM/GGH A modeling and simulation environment for the study of multi-scale and multicellular systems, able to couple ODEs, PDEs and cellular Potts models. link
NetLogo CPM/GGH A multi-agent programmable modeling environment. link
PhysiCell Center Model A physics-based cell simulator that models 3D multicellular systems, focusing on the interactions of (off-lattice) cells with their microenvironment. link
PolyHoop Vertex Model A lightweight standalone C++ implementation of a mechanical model to simulate the dynamics of soft particles and cellular tissues in two dimensions. link
SimuCell3D Center Model A C++ cell-based simulation framework designed to simulate tissues in 3 dimensions with high geometrical resolution. link
Tissue Forge Center Model, Vertex Model Tissue Forge is an interactive, particle-based physics, chemistry and biology modeling and simulation environment. link
Tissue Simulation Toolkit CPM/GGH Tissue Simulation Toolkit (TST) 2.0, a library for two-dimensional simulations of Glazier and Graner's Cellular Potts model (Glazier and Graner, 1993). link
Vivarium Collective Multi Model Integration The Vivarium Collective is a registry for open-source Vivarium-compatible simulation modules. These can be wired together to generate novel multi-scale simulations, with the most appropriate algorithm for each biological mechanism. link