An overview of spatial microscopic and accelerated kinetic Monte Carlo methods

A Chatterjee, DG Vlachos - Journal of computer-aided materials design, 2007 - Springer
The microscopic spatial kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method has been employed extensively
in materials modeling. In this review paper, we focus on different traditional and multiscale …

When polymer reaction engineers play dice: applications of Monte Carlo models in PRE

ALT Brandao, JBP Soares, JC Pinto… - Macromolecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Monte Carlo methods are heuristic algorithms that use probabilities to select an outcome
among several possible events in a given process. Monte Carlo methods are useful in …

BioNetGen 2.2: advances in rule-based modeling

LA Harris, JS Hogg, JJ Tapia, JAP Sekar… - …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
BioNetGen is an open-source software package for rule-based modeling of complex
biochemical systems. Version 2.2 of the software introduces numerous new features for both …

Perspective: Stochastic algorithms for chemical kinetics

DT Gillespie, A Hellander, LR Petzold - The Journal of chemical …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We outline our perspective on stochastic chemical kinetics, paying particular attention to
numerical simulation algorithms. We first focus on dilute, well-mixed systems, whose …

Master equations and the theory of stochastic path integrals

MF Weber, E Frey - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review provides a pedagogic and self-contained introduction to master equations and
to their representation by path integrals. Since the 1930s, master equations have served as …

Biochemical simulations: stochastic, approximate stochastic and hybrid approaches

J Pahle - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Computer simulations have become an invaluable tool to study the sometimes
counterintuitive temporal dynamics of (bio-) chemical systems. In particular, stochastic …

Lattice microbes: High‐performance stochastic simulation method for the reaction‐diffusion master equation

E Roberts, JE Stone… - Journal of computational …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial stochastic simulation is a valuable technique for studying reactions in biological
systems. With the availability of high‐performance computing (HPC), the method is poised to …

Spatial stochastic intracellular kinetics: A review of modelling approaches

S Smith, R Grima - Bulletin of mathematical biology, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Models of chemical kinetics that incorporate both stochasticity and diffusion are an
increasingly common tool for studying biology. The variety of competing models is vast, but …

Simulation of biochemical reactions with time-dependent rates by the rejection-based algorithm

VH Thanh, C Priami - The Journal of chemical physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We address the problem of simulating biochemical reaction networks with time-dependent
rates and propose a new algorithm based on our rejection-based stochastic simulation …

Spatially extended hybrid methods: a review

CA Smith, CA Yates - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many biological and physical systems exhibit behaviour at multiple spatial, temporal or
population scales. Multiscale processes provide challenges when they are to be simulated …