Section: New Software and Platforms

OpenAlea

Keywords: Bioinformatics - Biology

Functional Description: OpenAlea is an open source project primarily aimed at the plant research community. It is a distributed collaborative effort to develop Python libraries and tools that address the needs of current and future works in Plant Architecture modeling. It includes modules to analyze, visualize and model the functioning and growth of plant architecture. It was formally developed in the Inria VirtualPlants team.

Release Functional Description: OpenAlea 2.0 adds to OpenAlea 1.0 a high-level formalism dedicated to the modeling of morphogenesis that makes it possible to use several modeling paradigms (Blackboard, L-systems, Agents, Branching processes, Cellular Automata) expressed with different languages (Python, L-Py, R, Visual Programming, ...) to analyse and simulate shapes and their development.

• Participants: Christian Fournier, Christophe Godin, Christophe Pradal, Frédéric Boudon, Patrick Valduriez, Esther Pacitti and Yann Guédon

• Partners: CIRAD - INRA

• Contact: Christophe Pradal

• Publications: OpenAlea: Scientific Workflows Combining Data Analysis and Simulation - OpenAlea: A visual programming and component-based software platform for plant modeling