Section: New Software and Platforms

MorphoNet

Keywords: 3D web - Morphogenesis - Big data - 3D reconstruction

Functional Description: MorphoNet is an open-source web-based morphological browser. It consists of a web application, exploiting the Unity3D gaming engine, which offers the user a comprehensive palette of interactions with the data, in order to explore the structure, the dynamics and the variability of biological systems. Users can also project quantitative and genetic properties onto the morphological scaffold, allowing for instance to easily explore the correlation between shape dynamics and gene expression patterns. On top of that, datasets and associated information can be shared with other selected users or with entire groups. This possibility of directly sharing results within and between research communities, together with the use of a unified, human readable format, makes MorphoNet a unique tool for multidisciplinary research. Its web-based, user-friendly and open-source structure is also ideal for science dissemination and teaching.

• Partner: CRBM - Centre de Recherche en Biologie cellulaire de Montpellier

• Contact: Emmanuel Faure

• URL: http://www.morphonet.org