High-throughput mathematical analysis identifies turing networks for patterning with equally diffusing signals

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue APRIL2016, 2016, Pages

  Marcon, Luciano ^a   Diego, Xavier ^b,c   Sharpe, James ^b,c,d   Müller, Patrick ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER LABORATORY OF THE MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

^b BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; EMBRYO AXIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FINGER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; PUBLICATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; EMBRYOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84979642849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.14022     Document Type: Article

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