High throughput quantification system for egg populations in caenorhabditis elegans

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1072-1075

  Mohamed, Mostafa ^a   Prasad, Brinda ^a   Badawy, Wael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIORS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 51749095062     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2008.4541607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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