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Biology by the Numbers
Mathematical software packages and programming languages bring quantitative rigor to a qualitative science
Email: Jeffrey M Perkel - jperkel@the-scientist.com The Scientist 2005, 19(12):32
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When the graduate students and postdocs in Martin Wilson's lab at the University of California, Davis, need to do image processing, they look to an unlikely source. Instead of off-the-shelf image analysis software, Wilson's team, which studies synapses in the retina, uses home-brewed algorithms running within the mathematical package Matlab, from The Mathworks, Inc., in Natick, Mass.
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