The First International Workshop on Physarum Transport Networks

Research Article

Towards an open online repository of P. polycephalum networks and their corresponding graph representations

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262469,
        author={Michael Dirnberger and Tim Kehl and Tim Mehlhorn and Kurt Mehlhorn and Adrian Neumann},
        title={Towards an open online repository of P. polycephalum networks and their corresponding graph representations},
        proceedings={The First International Workshop on Physarum Transport Networks},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={PHYSNET},
        year={2016},
        month={5},
        keywords={p polycephalum experimental data graphs},
        doi={10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262469}
    }
    
  • Michael Dirnberger
    Tim Kehl
    Tim Mehlhorn
    Kurt Mehlhorn
    Adrian Neumann
    Year: 2016
    Towards an open online repository of P. polycephalum networks and their corresponding graph representations
    PHYSNET
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262469
Michael Dirnberger1,*, Tim Kehl1, Tim Mehlhorn2, Kurt Mehlhorn1, Adrian Neumann1
  • 1: Max Planck Institute for Informatics
  • 2: Korea Institute of Technology Europe
*Contact email: mtd@mpi-inf.mpg.de

Abstract

We introduce the Slime Mold Graph Repository, a publicly available collection of pairs (I, G). Let I denote an image of P. polycephalum's signature network and G an equivalent weighted graph representation of I. To convert I to G we have developed a dedicated software called NEFI. Working with graphs makes data analysis using techniques from graph theory and network science straight-forward.