Abstract
We present the simulation of the effect of cell migration speed on wound healing using a three-dimensional computational model for multicellular tissue growth. The computational model uses a discrete approach based on cellular automata to simulate wound-healing times and tissue growth rates of multiple populations of proliferating and migrating cells. Each population of cells has its own division, motion, collision, and aggregation characteristics resulting in a number of useful system parameters that allow us to investigate their emergent effects. Our sequential performance results point to the need of porting the model to modern high performance machines to harness the computational power available in multicore and GPU-based computers. Discrete systems of this kind can be a valuable approach for studying many complex systems, including biological ones.