OpenWorm: An open-science approach to modeling Caenorhabditis elegans

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue November, 2014, Pages 1-7

  Szigeti, Balázs ^a,b   Gleeson, Padraig ^b,c   Vella, Michael ^b,d   Khayrulin, Sergey ^b,e   Palyanov, Andrey ^b,e   Hokanson, Jim ^b,f   Currie, Michael ^b   Cantarelli, Matteo ^b   Idili, Giovanni ^b   Larson, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b OpenWorm Project   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e A P ERSHOV INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS SYSTEMS   (Russian Federation)

^f Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

C. Elegans; Complex systems simulation; Emergent behavior; Integrative modeling; Open science

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

ELEGANS; EMERGENT BEHAVIORS; INTEGRATIVE MODELING; OPEN SCIENCE; SYSTEMS SIMULATION;

ENGINES;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BEHAVIOR; BODY COMPOSITION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MUSCLE TISSUE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OPEN SCIENCE APPROACH; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; SIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84908658401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2014.00137     Document Type: Article

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