Modelling sperm behaviour in a 3D environment

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 141-149

  Burkitt, M ^a   Walker, D ^a   Romano, D M ^a   Fazeli, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; 3D MODELS; AGENT-BASED MODEL; COLLISION DETECTION; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CONCURRENT SIMULATION; DIFFERENT PROCESS; FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE TRACT; OPTIMISATIONS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; RUNTIMES;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MAMMALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 80054804352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2037509.2037531     Document Type: Conference Paper

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