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SUBMITTER: Kanari L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5797226 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kanari Lida L Dłotko Paweł P Scolamiero Martina M Levi Ran R Shillcock Julian J Hess Kathryn K Markram Henry H
Neuroinformatics 20180101 1
Many biological systems consist of branching structures that exhibit a wide variety of shapes. Our understanding of their systematic roles is hampered from the start by the lack of a fundamental means of standardizing the description of complex branching patterns, such as those of neuronal trees. To solve this problem, we have invented the Topological Morphology Descriptor (TMD), a method for encoding the spatial structure of any tree as a "barcode", a unique topological signature. As opposed to ...[more]