David Moore guides you through the World of Cyberfungi's written resources that will help you to make full use of the Neighbour-Sensing interactive computer model in your own experiments. Make your selection from the links below.

The program is a Java™ applet, which provides you with a full three-dimensional simulation of mycelial growth. Most of the operation of the program is intuitive but we provide you with an operating MANUAL you can download as a PDF file from the link below (and then save or print as you wish).

bullet Download the PDF version of the operating MANUAL.
bullet View the on-line OPERATING MANUAL by clicking this hyperlink.
bullet Look at a few initial experiments done by Liam McNulty via this hyperlink.
bullet Consider a few more extensive experiments that have unexpected results, which are worthy of further in silico experimentation via this hyperlink.
bullet See some brief descriptions of the basic mathematics on which the modelling depends:
bullet of the basic kinetics of hyphal growth in live fungi through this hyperlink;
bullet of the basic mathematics underlying the Neighbour-Sensing model through this hyperlink.
bullet For the full detail, you could read our more formal publications about this model, all of which are accessible through this hyperlink.
bullet Browse a collection of XML files representing ready-made simulations that you can load into the program to complete yourself. All explained through this hyperlink.

Remember, though, that the Neighbour-Sensing applet is using YOUR computing power. Calculating the behaviour of a couple of hundred to a thousand or so hyphal tips is pretty demanding, so if your computer is a bit on the slow side the normally smooth growth process will become hesitant and proceed in steps, and may appear to halt altogether. Please don't blame us because your computer isn't up to it!

Finally, now that you can grow them in your own computer, I feel sure that you'll want to buy a book or two about fungi, maybe more. Well, we've not yet written the definitive volume about cyberfungi, but have you seen these books ... click here...?

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