Re: [sbml-arrays] Comment on arrays spec

[Nicolas Le N. <n.l...@gm...>]

On 15/05/17 20:31, Chris Myers wrote:

> Good point.  A single dimension is often pretty good and indeed, everything can be mapped to a single dimension.  However, I could imagine a 3D grid of reactions/species perhaps being a reasonable example.  Harder to think of real uses for more than 3, but there is no reason to limit it.

I think there are a few real uses of more than 3 dimensions. Some biological "dimensions" might belong to the same physical one. For instance one can model an array of lymph nodes, each containing an array of follicles, each one containing and array of cells. Those  cells can be dendritic cells, B lymphocytes etc., each one at different states of differentiation.

I don't think we are only thinking of spatial dimensions here.

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