Documentation

Introduction

LBIBCell (Lattice Boltzmann Immersed Boundary) is a 2D simulation software to study the interplay between cell and tissue mechanics and biomolecular signaling. Here, you will find information how to download and build the software, extensive tutorials, and the detailed documentation of the source code. For more information about the implemented algorithms and applications, please turn to the corresponding publications.

Tutorials

We highly recommend to go through the tutorial examples in order to get to know how to set up your own scenarios and implement custom modules.

The following graph shows how the tutorials depend on each other:

1. Tutorial 1: Division, Differentiation and Signaling
2. Tutorial 2: Turing Pattern on Growing Tissue

Availability

You can download the softwawre from here.

Installation

Use cmake and make. For more details see Installation.

Dependencies

For more details see Dependencies

Licence

The software is free and open source. It is distributed under a MIT license (see The licence for the library)

Publication

Tanaka S, Sichau D, Iber D, LBIBCell: A Cell-Based Simulation Environment for Morphogenetic Problems. Bioinformatics, in press.

Authors

1. Simon Tanaka, main developer
2. David Sichau, Master Thesis 2013 (supervised by ST)
3. Prof. Dagmar Iber

Please check out our group website.