A scenario-based approach to modeling development: A prototype model of C. elegans vulval fate specification

Developmental Biology

Volumn 323, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-5

  Kam, Na'aman ^a   Kugler, Hillel ^b,c,d   Marelly, Rami ^a   Appleby, Lara ^e   Fisher, Jasmin ^d   Pnueli, Amir ^a,c   Harel, David ^a   Stern, Michael J ^e   Hubbard, E Jane Albert ^b,f  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Live Sequence Charts; Modeling; Scenario based; VPC; Vulval fate specification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CELL SPECIFICITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 53849108096     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2008.07.030     Document Type: Article

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