Monday, June 24, 2019

MBI rule of lie


Karl Niklas, I keep thinking genome is a library, and plasmids keep knocking on it.
Plants are extremely responsive to external cues.
Plants are bags of water filled with chemicals.
Stopped writing grants 20 years ago.
Life responds, always change to survive.
Simple multi-cellular is often unsuccesful than compelx cellularity in competition in environments?

Cell fate specification? Genome plasticity. The beginning of stem cells.

Q: is symmetry a null model? So, polarity is an alternative model in life?

Biofilm is a  model for transient multi-cellular organism.




Thursday, June 13, 2019

finding your inner model

Finding your inner model, UAB,


Daniel Szymanski, Joe Turner, epidermal morphogenesis with integrated experimental verification
Finite element method modeling of cell wall for plant morphology.
Start with simple model, and add complexity as needed.
Empirical rule for model training (fitting), 3-5% error?



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