title: Systems morphodynamics: understanding the development of tissue hardware.
abstract: Systems morphodynamics describes a multi-level analysis of mechanical morphogenesis that draws on new microscopy and computational technologies and embraces a systems biology-informed scope. We present a selection of articles that illustrate and explain this rapidly progressing field.This article is part of the themed issue 'Systems morphodynamics: understanding the development of tissue hardware'.
authors.affiliation: MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK y.mao@ucl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Yanlan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.affiliation: Department of Craniofacial Development & Stem Cell Biology, King's College London, Guy's Tower, London SE1 9RT, UK jeremy.green@kcl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Jeremy B A
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6102-2620
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Green
mesh_terms: D008853:Microscopy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D009024:Morphogenesis; D049490:Systems Biology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*
keywords: microscopy; modelling; morphogenesis; pattern formation