Two of the most important are the central nervous system and the immune system. This paper looks at the liver as another source of ideas. The liver is a fascinating organ, highly complex and like the brain poorly understood, but it can provide many insights into parallelisation. Following on from a summary review of liver biology, a number of computational models are described and a variety of approaches considered.
Emphasis is placed on a broad range of informal models.
The paper concludes with a discussion of certain issues related to cell-cell interaction.