Matters of life and death in computational cell biology
Abstract
Many cell models deal with constraints for life's persistence, yet we lack principles for how dynamics interact with them and their origins in actual biology. Computational biology needs a theory of viability that confronts the life-death boundary to overcome this. We explore how geometric structures in a model's state space offer organizing principles for cell fate, and how idealized models of emergent individuals may help explain life's intrinsically generated limits.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation
Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- npj Systems Biology and Applications
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Publication date
- 20 April 2026
- Language
- EN