Sector
Sector takes physiological function apart into the structures that decide what can pass, what must move, what must not cross, and those that carry load and tension across the body.
The ApiNATOMY method
Sector is built on ApiNATOMY, a method for representing physiology as routes: routes of flow, and routes of tension. On the flow side, it treats a process, blood moving, urine forming, a signal travelling a nerve, as a path, and the structures that carry it as conduits along it. Alongside this, we are extending the same approach to how tissues transmit tension, through the fascia and connective tissue that hold the body together.
Anchored to a map of the body
Routes are laid out on shared scaffolds. The TOO Map is a wireframe of the body’s main thoroughfares of flow: blood, cerebrospinal fluid, and the surface materials of the gut, airways, and skin. A companion scaffold, Sagoma, is being built to trace how tension is distributed across the connective tissue corset. A shared map lets a mechanism be placed where it happens, and compared with any other.
Grounded and shared
Every structure ties to a standard anatomical or molecular identifier, so the knowledge is FAIR and not locked to this project. ApiNATOMY’s representation of flow is established, developed over a decade of published work; its extension to tension is newer, and we are building it in the open.
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