Everything about Functional specification

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Functional specificationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Enhanced metanephric specification to functional proximal tubule enables toxicity screening and infectious disease modelling in kidney organoidsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: A chemist's guide to density functional theoryThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Synapses: Sites of Cell Recognition, Adhesion, and Functional SpecificationCited 125 times
5. Go sideways: Business requirementsA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: RequirementA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Synapses: Sites of Cell Recognition, Adhesion, and Functional Specification

  Soichiro Yamada, W. James Nelson · 2007 · Annual Review of Biochemistry · 125 citations

• Tubulins and brain development – The origins of functional specification

  Martin W. Breuss, Ines Leca, Thomas Gstrein · 2017 · Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience · 101 citations

• Functional analyses of genetic pathways controlling petal specification in poppy

  Sinéad Drea, Lena C. Hileman, Gemma de Martino · 2007 · Development · 81 citations

• Functional programming, formal specification, and rapid prototyping

  Peter Henderson · 1986 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 79 citations

• Hedonic Amenity Valuation and Functional Form Specification

  J. Walter Milon, Jonathan Gressel, David Mulkey · 1984 · Land Economics · 71 citations

• Damage Control Econometrics: Functional Specification and Pesticide Productivity

  Catalina Carrasco‐Tauber, L. Joe Moffitt · 1992 · American Journal of Agricultural Economics · 60 citations

• Functional specification in the Drosophila endoderm

  Hideki Nakagoshi · 2005 · Development, Growth & Differentiation · 41 citations

• Transcriptional regulation of Treg homeostasis and functional specification

  Ke Wang, Wenxian Fu · 2020 · Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences · 35 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Enhanced metanephric specification to functional proximal tubule enables toxicity screening and infectious disease modelling in kidney organoids

  Jessica M. Vanslambrouck, Sean B. Wilson, Ker Sin Tan · 2022 · Nature Communications · 96 citations

• Specification of fetal liver endothelial progenitors to functional zonated adult sinusoids requires c-Maf induction

  Jesus Maria Gómez-Salinero, Franco Izzo, Yang Lin · 2022 · Cell Stem Cell · 84 citations

• Primary cilia signaling in astrocytes mediates development and regional-specific functional specification

  Lizheng Wang, Qianqian Guo, Sandesh Acharya · 2024 · Nature Neuroscience · 35 citations

• Applying the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System to Functional Communication Treatment Approaches for Aphasia

  Leora R. Cherney, Gayle DeDe, Elizabeth L. Hoover · 2022 · Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation · 30 citations

• Functional role of GATA3 and CDX2 in lineage specification during bovine early embryonic development

  Yan Shi, Bingjie Hu, Zizengchen Wang · 2023 · Reproduction · 18 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• A chemist's guide to density functional theoryWolfram Koch · 2000
• 📕EOS/AMSU-A blackbody spacecraft test targets operation and maintenance manual · 1998
• 📕Earth Observing System/Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (EOS/AMSU-A)Robert Schwantje · 1994
• 📕Engineering specification and system design for CAD/CAM of custom shoesHan P. Bao · 1989
• 📕Small spacecraft technology initiative (SSTI)George Reppucci · 1995
• Initial computability, algebraic specifications, and partial algebrasHorst Reichel · 1987
• Density Functional Theory of Molecules, Clusters, and SolidsD. E. Ellis · 1995
• 📕A fiber-optic probe design for combustion chamber flame detection applicationsStephen E. Borg · 2001

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