Computing dendritic growth

Abstract

We have developed an interactive tool for the construction and simulation of nervecell-models. Based on a semi-CAD platform, the program is able to build single objects in a described way and in a later stage to put them together for observation of their interactions. The user is able to define strings in a graph-grammar fashion, which can be combined with other influencing parameters. This gives the opportunity to build up very natural dendritic trees. Our emphasis is that biological objects are put together as a set of well defined rules, which are overlaid by a distinct statistical variance.