DevoWorm (2024: #41): OpenWorm.ai/Connectome Toolbox, Developmental Trajectories as Vector Spaces

A tour of new OpenWorm Informatics resources: openworm.ai (LLM for the C. elegans literature and community resources) and Connectome Toolbox (a utility for analyzing connectome data). Two papers on the use of inner vector products for understanding the divergence of developmental trajectories. Waddington (epigenetic) landscapes and latent spaces, alternate developmental trajectories due to perturbation. Vectors for gene expression and its effect on phenotypes.
References:
C. elegans Connectome Toolbox
openworm.org/C...
Letsou, W. (2024). The indispensable role of time in autonomous development. BioSystems, 246, 105340.
Milocco and Uller (2024). Utilizing developmental dynamics for evolutionary prediction and control. PNAS, 121(14), e2320413121.