A model for drosophila melanogaster development from a single cell to stripe pattern formation

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1406-1412

  Montagna, Sara ^a   Pianini, Danilo ^a   Viroli, Mirko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

computational biology; drosophila development; multi cellular models; stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONTROL-CELL; DROSOPHILA DEVELOPMENT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS; NUCLEAR DIVISION; PATTERNING PROCESS; SINGLE CELLS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATION ALGORITHMS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; STRIPE PATTERN; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; DEGRADATION; GENES; MORPHOLOGY; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84863569818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2245276.2231999     Document Type: Conference Paper

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