Virtual Plant Tissue a.k.a VPTissue is a cell-based computer modeling framework for plant tissue morphogenesis. It defines a set of biologically intuitive C++ objects that provide useful abstractions for building biological simulations of developmental processes. These include entities such as cells and cell walls, but also algorithmic components describing diffusion and active transport of chemicals, rules for cell division etc. The models provide a means for plant researchers to analyze the function of developmental genes in the context of the biophysics of growth and patterning.

Software

• Repository containing the source code.

Documentation

• Installation information can be found in the text files README.txt
INSTALL.txt, PLATFORMS.txt, DEPENDENCIES.txt and KNOWN_ISSUES.txt
in the toplevel directory of the software distribution.
• User manual generated from latex sources is available in pdf format
in directory src/doc/latex_user_man of the software distribution.
• Reference documentation on the code base consists of these web pages.