A parallel implementation of the cellular potts model for simulation of cell-based morphogenesis

Authors:
Nan Chen;James A. Glazier;Mark S. Alber
Affiliations:
Department of Mathematics and Center for the Study of Biocomplexity, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN;Department of Physics and Biocomplexity Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN;Department of Mathematics and Center for the Study of Biocomplexity, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Venue:
ACRI'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Glazier and Graner's Cellular Potts Model (CPM) has found use in a wide variety of biological simulations However, most current CPM implementations use a sequential modified Metropolis algorithm which restricts the size of simulations In this paper we present a parallel CPM algorithm for simulations of morphogenesis, which includes cell-cell adhesion, haptotaxis and cell division The algorithm uses appropriate data structures and checkerboard subgrids for parallelization Communication and updating algorithms synchronize properties of cells simulated on different computer nodes We benchmark our algorithm by simulating cell sorting and chondrogenic condensation.