iPlants – A Brief Look At Virtual Plants (From Avatar to Systems Biology)
Posted in Plant Science on Feb 10th, 2010
iPlants: An Introduction From movies and video games to landscape design to education to scientific research, we are increasingly encountering plants in silico (that is, computer-simulated plants). Virtual plants fall into three categories: (1) computer-generated images, (2) outputs from computer algorithms, and (3) computer-searchable plant gene and protein databases. What follows is a summary of [...]
