Embryonic cleavage modeling as a computational approach to sphere packing problem

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-82

  Zammataro, Luca ^a   Serini, Guido ^a   Rowland, Todd ^b   Bussolino, Federico ^a  

^a CANDIOLO CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b WOLFRAM RESEARCH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryonic cleavage; New Kind of Science; Sphere Packing; Substitution Systems

Indexed keywords

EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; INVERTEBRATE; MODELING; THEORY;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIVISION; COMPUTER MODEL; DAUGHTER CELL; EMBRYO CELL; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; STYELA PARTITA;

EID: 33846785223     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.09.032     Document Type: Article

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