CPM: Foundations for Tissue

CompuCell is based on the Cellular Potts Model (CPM). While the Potts model was originally developed to study ferromagentic and crystalline systems. In the late 80's and 90's, Fran?ois Graner and James Glazier extended the Potts model to study the coarsening of foam and sorting of biological cells. Since then modelers have continued to use the CPM to study foam, morphogenesis, biofilms, cancer, as well as many other biological and physical systems.