Background: The ability of science to produce experimental data has
outpaced the ability to effectively visualize and integrate the data into a
conceptual framework that can further higher order understanding. Multidimensional
and shape-based observational data of regenerative biology presents a particularly
daunting challenge in this ... read moreregard. Large amounts of data are available in
regenerative biology, but little progress has been made in understanding how
organisms such as planaria robustly achieve and maintain body form. An example of
this kind of data can be found in a new repository (PlanformDB) that encodes
descriptions of planaria experiments and morphological outcomes using a graph
formalism.
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algorithm for converting cell-based models to graph representations for use in
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