Table 2.

List of simulation parameters

Simulation parameter	Value
Lattice spacing ε	1
⇒ Time-step length τ	1
Lattice size	$61\times 61\Rightarrow \left|\mathcal{ℒ}\right|=3721$
Number of channels κ	10, i.e. β = 6 (rest channels)
Initial density	Full occupation [1610 cells]
Initial adhesive state (slow regulation mode)	50000 [50%, ODE steady state]
Initial adhesive state (fast regulation mode)	80000 [80%]
Heterogeneity parameter γ	0, 0.05, 0.25, 0.4, 0.55
Environmental control parameter α	1
Cell dissemination threshold distance	50
Number of iterations	1000
Number of repetitions	500

These parameters are used for all simulations, unless otherwise noted. Simulations results were averaged over 500 identical repetitions