Agent-based models in cellular systems

J Pleyer, C Fleck - Frontiers in Physics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This mini-review discusses agent-based models as modeling techniques for studying
pattern formation of multi-cellular systems in biology. We introduce and compare different …

Seven challenges in the multiscale modeling of multicellular tissues

AG Fletcher, JM Osborne - WIREs mechanisms of disease, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The growth and dynamics of multicellular tissues involve tightly regulated and coordinated
morphogenetic cell behaviors, such as shape changes, movement, and division, which are …

Hybrid Automata Library: A flexible platform for hybrid modeling with real-time visualization

RR Bravo, E Baratchart, J West… - PLoS computational …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The Hybrid Automata Library (HAL) is a Java Library developed for use in mathematical
oncology modeling. It is made of simple, efficient, generic components that can be used to …

Mathematical models of organoid cultures

S Montes-Olivas, L Marucci, M Homer - Frontiers in Genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Organoids are engineered three-dimensional tissue cultures derived from stem cells and
capable of self-renewal and self-organization into a variety of progenitors and differentiated …

[HTML][HTML] Digitize your Biology! Modeling multicellular systems through interpretable cell behavior

JAI Johnson, GL Stein-O'Brien, M Booth, R Heiland… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cells are fundamental units of life, constantly interacting and evolving as dynamical systems.
While recent spatial multi-omics can quantitate individual cells' characteristics and …

[HTML][HTML] Mathematical and computational models in spheroid-based biofabrication

S Arjoca, A Robu, M Neagu, A Neagu - Acta Biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Ubiquitous in embryonic development, tissue fusion is of interest to tissue engineers who
use tissue spheroids or organoids as building blocks of three-dimensional (3D) multicellular …

Arrested coalescence of multicellular aggregates

D Oriola, M Marin-Riera, K Anlaş, N Gritti… - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Multicellular aggregates are known to exhibit liquid-like properties. The fusion process of
two cell aggregates is commonly studied as the coalescence of two viscous drops. However …

[HTML][HTML] Rethinking embryology in vitro: A synergy between engineering, data science and theory

N Gritti, D Oriola, V Trivedi - Developmental biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Pluripotent stem cells, in the recent years, have been demonstrated to mimic different
aspects of metazoan embryonic development in vitro. This has led to the establishment of …

[HTML][HTML] An adaptive numerical method for multi-cellular simulations of tissue development and maintenance

JM Osborne - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, multi–cellular models, where cells are represented as individual interacting
entities, are becoming ever popular. This has led to a proliferation of novel methods and …

Inference of dynamic spatial GRN models with multi-GPU evolutionary computation

R Mousavi, SH Konuru, D Lobo - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Reverse engineering mechanistic gene regulatory network (GRN) models with a specific
dynamic spatial behavior is an inverse problem without analytical solutions in general …