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The multidimensionality of cell behaviors underlying morphogenesis: a case study in ascidians
Author(s) -
Di Gregorio Anna,
Hadjantonakis AnnaKaterina
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
bioessays
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.175
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1521-1878
pISSN - 0265-9247
DOI - 10.1002/bies.20453
Subject(s) - morphogenesis , biology , embryo , task (project management) , computational biology , evolutionary biology , computer science , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , engineering , gene , systems engineering
Databases where different types of information from different sources can be integrated, cross‐referenced and interactively accessed are necessary for building a quantitative understanding of the molecular and cell biology intrinsic to the morphogenesis of an embryo. Tassy and colleagues1 recently reported the development of software tailor‐made to perform such a task, along with the generation and integration of three‐dimensional anatomical models of embryos. They convincingly illustrated the utility of their approach by applying it to the early ascidian embryo. BioEssays 28: 874–879, 2006. © 2006 Wiley periodicals, Inc.