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Welcome to CompuCell3D

CompuCell3D is a flexible scriptable modeling environment, which allows the rapid construction of sharable Virtual Tissue in silico simulations of a wide variety of multi-scale, multi-cellular problems including angiogenesis, bacterial colonies, cancer, developmental biology, evolution, the immune system, tissue engineering, toxicology and even non-cellular soft materials. CompuCell3D models have been used to solve basic biological problems, to develop medical therapies, to assess modes of action of toxicants and to design engineered tissues. CompuCell3D's intuitive interface makes Virtual Tissue modeling accessible to users without extensive software development or programming experience.

It uses Cellular Potts Model to model cell behavior. Below is a preview of what CC3D can do:

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nanoHUB

CompuCell3D is available for online use on nanoHUB. Some CompuCell3D simulations are already available as demonstrations. See the CC3D on nanoHUB page for more info.

Support

This project is currently funded by generous support from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) grant NSF-1720625, “Network for Computational Nanotechnology - Engineered nanoBIO Node” and

National Institute of Health, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Grant U24EB028887, "Dissemination of libRoadRunner and CompuCell3D".

Past support for this project includes:

U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant NIH - R01 GM122424, “Competitive Renewal of Development and Improvement of the Tissue Simulation Toolkit”. Information on previous support is listed on our Support page.

CompuCell3D is led by James A. Glazier (Indiana Univ) in collaboration with Dr. David Umulis (Purdue Univ). Many people contribute, or have contributed, to CC3D including the original lead developer Maciej Swat.

New CC3D forum

To report any bugs, or to ask questions, please visit our Q&A page: Reddit CompuCell3D.

Note: In April 2019 our old user forum at CC3D - AllAnswered was discontinued. The entries in the old AllAnswered forum are available at CC3D AllAnswered archive.html. The text of the questions and answers are there but the linked files are not. If you need one of the linked files please ask for it on the Reddit forum.

Want to contribute to CompuCell3D development?

We highly encourage fellow researchers to contribute to CompuCell3D code. If you have developed some useful plugin or functionality on CompuCell3D and would like share it with rest of us. Please commit the code and open a pull request on CompuCell3D GitHub repository. We would love to see it in next version of CompuCell3D.

Try our new CompuCell3D User Forum. In case you are facing any issue with CompuCell3D installation, we are here to help. Please create a post on our subreddit. Problems are often simple to solve.

How to cite CompuCell3D

Multi-Scale Modeling of Tissues Using CompuCell3D – M. Swat, Gilberto L. Thomas, Julio M. Belmonte, A. Shirinifard, D.Hmeljak, J. A. Glazier, Computational Methods in Cell Biology, Methods in Cell Biology 110: 325-366 (2012). PMID:22482955 PMCID: PMC3612985 DOI: doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-388403-9.00013-8