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- MCell & CellBlender Overview
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- MCell is an agent-based reaction-diffusion program that simulates the movement and interaction of molecules in 3D space.
- MCell 4, the latest version of MCell, provides two different user experiences, one through its visual interface as an
- add-on in Blender 2.93, known as `CellBlender <https://mcell.org/tutorials_iframe.html>`__, the other user experience one through a new Python interface.
- MCell 4 provides the users with the flexibility to change between both experiences, or to run the simulations using Python and visualize the simulations in Blender.
- Furthermore, support for the file format MDL that older versions of MCell had, is also provided for backwards compatibility.
- In the newly developed MCell 4, reactions can be written following `BioNetGen <https://www.bionetgen.org>`__ syntax,
- and therefore models can be exported from MCell and imported in BioNetGen for simulation and vice versa,
- integrating two different simulation engines.
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