Community
A piece of software is nothing without who maintains it and who uses it. We all form the community that make this package to be useful around the globe.
DUNE
DUNE, the Distributed and Unified Numerics Environment is a modular toolbox for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) with grid-based methods. It is the framework that DuneCopasi uses to assemble and solve the numerical problems. The very well designed DUNE grid has a tremendous influence on how DuneCopasi is designed.
Biological Cell Modelling
In the biology community there is an effort to produce software that is able model spatio-temporal variations of molecule distributions in living cells. This project itself is an initiative of the COPASI developers to fill this gap for determinitic reaction networks.
Spatial Model Editor
The Spatial Model Editor is a user friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML). The GUI is able to read and modify non-spatial SBML models into 2D spatial models and simulate them with DuneCopasi. A big advantage of this package is that is tailored specifically for biologists and is available with just a pair of clicks on the major plataforms.