SHAPE: a computer program package for quantitative evaluation of biological shapes based on elliptic Fourier descriptors.

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• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Journal of Heredity

• Publication date

  2002-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1093/JHERED/93.5.384PMID 12547931
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