DLCM: a versatile multi-level solver for heterogeneous multicellular systems
Computational modeling of multicellular systems may aid in untangling cellular dynamics and emergent properties of biological cell populations. A key challenge is to balance the level of model detail and the computational efficiency, while using physically interpretable parameters to facilitate meaningful comparisons with biological data. For this purpose, we present the DLCM-solver (discrete Laplacian cell mechanics), a flexible and efficient computational solver for spatial and stochastic simulations of populations of cells, developed from first principle to support mechanistic investigations. The solver has been designed as a module in URDME, the unstructured reaction-diffusion master equation open software framework, to allow for the integration of intra-cellular models with extra-cellular features handled by the DLCM. The solver manages discrete cells on a fixed lattice and reaction-transport events in a continuous-time Markov chain. Space-continuous micro-environment quantities such as pressure and chemical substances are supported by the framework, permitting a variety of modeling choices concerning chemotaxis, mechanotaxis, nutrient-driven cell growth and death, among others. An essential and novel feature of the DLCM-solver is the coupling of cellular pressure to the curvature of the cell populations by elliptic projection onto the computational grid, with which we can include effects from surface tension between populations. We demonstrate the flexibility of the framework by implementing benchmark problems of cell sorting, cellular signaling, tumor growth, and chemotaxis models. We additionally formally analyze the computational complexity and show that it is theoretically optimal for systems based on pressure-driven cell migration. In summary, the solver balances efficiency and a relatively fine resolution, while supporting a high level of interpretability.
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