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Summary

The cord model will be described by a a set of global parameters and a list of the following items:

External factors specifications
which are lists of names, units of measure, baseline values and ranges of variation of external factors;
Cell categories
which consist ranges of values to be generated for parameters of the actual cells belonging to the categories and for the relevance coefficients, and which also contain the transfer functions for each of the factors and for each of the cells;
Anatomic model
which consists of the spatial placements of cells, described as a list of blocks, each for a cell category.