owmeta.cell module¶

class owmeta.cell.Cell(name=None, lineageName=None, **kwargs)[source]¶

A biological cell.

All cells with the same name are considered to be the same object.

Parameters:	name : `str` The name of the cell lineageName : `str` The lineageName of the cell

Examples

>>> from owmeta_core.quantity import Quantity
>>> c = Cell(lineageName="AB plapaaaap",
...     divisionVolume=Quantity("600","(um)^3"))

Return the blast name.

Example:

>>> c = Cell(name="ADAL", lineageName='AB ')
>>> c.blast()
'AB'

Note that this isn’t a Property. It returns the blast cell part of a lineageName value.

name¶: The ‘adult’ name of the cell typically used by biologists when discussing C. elegans