Nemo: A computational tool for analyzing nematode locomotion

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Tsibidis, George D ^a   Tavernarakis, Nektarios ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; HEAT SENSITIVITY; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RELIABILITY; VIDEORECORDING; ANIMAL; MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; LOCOMOTION; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 37349114569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-8-86     Document Type: Article

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