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ArticleCellular and molecular bioengineering2015

Strategies for efficient numerical implementation of hybrid multi-scale agent-based models to describe biological systems.

Nicholas A Cilfone, Denise E Kirschner, Jennifer J Linderman

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Article in Cellular and molecular bioengineering, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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59 citing papers in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Nicholas A CilfoneDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Denise E KirschnerDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Jennifer J LindermanDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Funding

Predicting immune responses that correlate with protection against tuberculosisR01HL110811 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI FLYNN, JOANNE L., KIRSCHNER, DENISE E · 2012 to 2016
$5.9M
A multi-scale model to predict outcomes of immunomodulation and drug therapy duriR01EB012579 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI FLYNN, JOANNE L., KIRSCHNER, DENISE E · 2011 to 2014
$2.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL110811NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB012579
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biologically related processes operate across multiple spatiotemporal scales. For computational modeling methodologies to mimic this biological complexity, individual scale models must be linked in ways that allow for dynamic exchange of information across scales. A powerful methodology is to combine a discrete modeling approach, agent-based models (ABMs), with continuum models to form hybrid models. Hybrid multi-scale ABMs have been used to simulate emergent responses of biological systems. Here, we review two aspects of hybrid multi-scale ABMs: linking individual scale models and efficiently solving the resulting model. We discuss the computational choices associated with aspects of linking individual scale models while simultaneously maintaining model tractability. We demonstrate implementations of existing numerical methods in the context of hybrid multi-scale ABMs. Using an example model describing

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Agent-Based ModelingHybrid ModelingLinking ModelsMulti-Scale ModelingNumerical ImplementationTuneable Resolution

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PMID26366228
PMCPMC4564133

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