A computational framework for modeling cell-matrix interactions in soft biological tissues.

"the computational procedure to produce such networks has been implemented in a short c++ program which is available under the bsd 3-clause license as the repository bionetgen hosted at https://github com/bionetgen/bionetgen ."

"Declaration Conflict of interestThe authors declare no conflicts, financial, or otherwise. Conflict of interest The authors declare no conflicts, financial, or otherwise."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. This study was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)—Projektnummer 257981274, Projektnummer 386349077. The authors also gratefully acknowledge financial support by the International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGSSE) of Technical University of Munich, Germany."