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PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009094
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Funding
- UK Centre for Topological Data Analysis EPSRC grant [EP/R018472/1]
- EPSRC [EP/R005125/1, EP/T001968/1]
- National Science Foundation [DMS-1638521]
- National Institute of Aging [R21AG059099]
- EPSRC [EP/R018472/1, EP/T001968/1, EP/R005125/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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By simulating the Anderson-Chaplain model of angiogenesis at different parameter values and using topological data analysis, researchers were able to stratify the parameter space into regions with similar vessel morphology. This method can be widely applied to other synthetic and experimental data fields, including wound healing, development, and plant biology.
Angiogenesis is the process by which blood vessels form from pre-existing vessels. It plays a key role in many biological processes, including embryonic development and wound healing, and contributes to many diseases including cancer and rheumatoid arthritis. The structure of the resulting vessel networks determines their ability to deliver nutrients and remove waste products from biological tissues. Here we simulate the Anderson-Chaplain model of angiogenesis at different parameter values and quantify the vessel architectures of the resulting synthetic data. Specifically, we propose a topological data analysis (TDA) pipeline for systematic analysis of the model. TDA is a vibrant and relatively new field of computational mathematics for studying the shape of data. We compute topological and standard descriptors of model simulations generated by different parameter values. We show that TDA of model simulation data stratifies parameter space into regions with similar vessel morphology. The methodologies proposed here are widely applicable to other synthetic and experimental data including wound healing, development, and plant biology.
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