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This section groups documents to install and use OpenAlea.
General documentation
OpenAlea workshop
This section groups documentation for packages and core developers.
Main Guides
Guidelines
Package creation/distribution
Components creation
Documentation and Tests
Tools
Collaborative work
This section groups documentation for administration purposes.
This section contains all publications associated to the OpenAlea Project and its components (articles, white papers, workshops, presentations, etc).
InfraPhenoGrid: A scientific workflow infrastructure for plant phenomics on the Grid,
C. Pradal, S. Artzet, J. Chopard, D. Dupuis, C. Fournier, M. Mielewczik, V. Negre, P. Neveu, D. Parigot, P. Valduriez, S. Cohen-Boulakia,
Future Generation Computer Systems WebSite
OpenAlea: scientific workflows combining data analysis and simulation,
C. Pradal, C. Fournier, P. Valduriez,S. Cohen-Boulakia,
In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management WebSite
Introduction to OpenAlea: a platform for plant modelling,
T. Cokelaer, C. Pradal, C.Godin,
(IHC 2010 slides)
VisuAlea, Towards a Scientific Modelling Environment using Visual Programming,
C. Pradal, D. Barbeau, T. Cokelaer, E. Moscardi
EuroSciPy 2010 slides from euroscipy site
(EuroSciPy 2010 slides)
Plant modelling with Python components in OpenAlea,
T. Cokelaer, C. Pradal, C. Fournier
EuroSciPy 2009 Slides
OpenAlea: A visual programming and component-based software platform for plant modeling,
C. Pradal, S. Dufour-Kowalski, F. Boudon, C. Fournier, C. Godin
Functional Plant Biology WebSite
Openalea - Visual programming and component based software for plant modeling,
C. Pradal, S. Dufour-Kowalski,
Europython conference - 2007. openalea_europython07.pdf WebSite
OpenAlea - An open-source platform for the integration of heterogeneous fspm components,
S. Dufour-Kowalski, C. Pradal, N. Dones, P. Barbier de Reuille, F. Boudon,
J. Chopard, D. DaSilva, J.-B. Durand, P. Ferraro, C. Fournier, Y. Guédon,
A. Ouangraoua, C. Smith8, S. Stoma, F. Théveny, H. Sinoquet and C. Godin,
5th International Workshop on Functional-Structural Plant Models - 2007. fspm07_poster.pdf,
Proceedings.
The architecture of OpenAlea: A visual programming and component based software for plant modeling,
C. Pradal, S. Dufour-Kowalski, F. Boudon, N. Dones,
5th International Workshop on Functional-Structural Plant Models, pages 25-1–25-4 - 2007.
Abstract
OpenAlea - A platform for plant modelling, analysis and simulation,
C. Pradal, F. Boudon, N. Dones, J.-B. Durand, P. Barbier De Reuille, C. Fournier, H. Sinoquet, C. Godin,
Europython conference - 2006.
openalea_europython.pdf
http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=98&sessionId=50&confId=44
ALEA: A software for integrating analysis and simulation tools for 3D architecture and ecophysiology,
C. Pradal, N. Dones, C. Godin, P. Barbier de Reuille, F. Boudon, B. Adam, H. Sinoquet,
4th International Workshop on Functional-Structural Plant Models, page 406 - 2004.
4thfspm04_s8pradal.pdf
http://www-sop.inria.fr/virtualplants/Publications/2004/PDGBBAS04/
ALEA : Atelier logiciel libre pour la modélisation des plantes,
C. Pradal, C. Godin,
Causeries d'Intech'Sophia - INRIA - 2005.
alea_overview.pdf
http://www-sop.inria.fr/intech/causeries/logiciel_libre.html