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Analysis of spatial relationships in three dimensions: tools for the study of nerve cell patterning

Stephen J Eglen1*, Dan D Lofgreen2, Mary A Raven2 and Benjamin E Reese2

Author Affiliations

1 Cambridge Computational Biology Institute, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0WA, UK

2 Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5060, USA

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BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9:68 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-9-68

Published: 21 July 2008

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Additional file 1:

Rotations of example 3D populations. 3D plots of the populations of cells shown in figure 1a, in rotation, showing, for an individual cell near the center of each field, its near neighbors that define the Voronoi domain of that cell. The nearest neighbor is illustrated in red.

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Additional file 2:

Rotations of example autocorrelograms. 3D autocorrelograms of the populations of cells shown in figure 2a, in rotation.

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