Towards anatomic scale agent-based modeling with a massively parallel spatially explicit general-purpose model of enteric tissue (SEGMEnT-HPC)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Cockrell, Robert Chase ^a   Christley, Scott ^a   Chang, Eugene ^a   An, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; ILEITIS; ILEUM POUCH; INTESTINE; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; INTESTINE METAPLASIA; PATHOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIALLY EXPLICITLY GENERAL PURPOSE MODEL OF ENTERIC TISSUE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE MUCOSA; PATHOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84926211295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122192     Document Type: Article

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