Welcome to Tyssue’s documentation!

The tyssue library seeks to provide a unified interface to implement bio-mechanical models of living tissues, with a focus on epithelium modeling. It’s main focus is on vertex based models.

• Basic creation and index manipulation
  • Easy creation of a 2D epithelial sheet
  • Datasets and specifications
• Visualisation
  • Matplotlib based representation
  • Epithelial sheet representation
  • Ipyvolume based
• Planar Geometries
• Sheet geometry in 3D
• Monolayer
• Bulk tissue
• Energy minimization for a 2D sheet in 3D
• Non dimensionalisation
• Cell Division
  • On a 2D mesh
  • Division in a 3D single layer epithelium
• Type 1 transition
  • Type 1 transitions can also be performed on edge faces
• Apoptosis
  • Imports
• Core objects
  • The Epithelium object
  • Sheet object
  • Monolayer object
• Drawing functions

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page