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Abstract

The Virtual Cell (VCell) is a general computational framework for modeling physico-chemical and electrophysiological processes in living cells. Developed by the National Resource for Cell Analysis and Modeling at the University of Connecticut Health Center, it provides automated tools for simulating a wide range of cellular phenomena in space and time, both deterministically and stochastically. These computational tools allow one to couple electrophysiology and reaction kinetics with transport mechanisms, such as diffusion and directed transport, and map them onto spatial domains of various shapes, including irregular three-dimensional geometries derived from experimental images. In this article, we review new robust computational tools recently deployed in VCell for treating spatially resolved models.

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Wiley Interdiscip Rev Syst Biol Med. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2013 March 1. Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Syst Biol Med. 2012 March; 4(2): 129–140. Published online 2011 December 2. doi: 10.1002/wsbm.165 PMCID: PMC3288182 NIHMSID: NIHMS333896

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