Transferring information without distortion

Steven S Andrews; Roger Brent; Gábor Balázsi

doi:10.7554/eLife.41894

Transferring information without distortion

Elife. 2018 Oct 25:7:e41894. doi: 10.7554/eLife.41894.

Authors

Steven S Andrews^{1

2}, Roger Brent¹, Gábor Balázsi^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States.
² Department of Physics, Seattle University, Seattle, United States.
³ Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical & Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, United States.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, United States.

Abstract

Despite employing diverse molecular mechanisms, many different cell signaling systems avoid losing information by transmitting it in a linear manner.

Keywords: cell biology; computational biology; human cell lines; linearity; signal transmission; signaling pathways; signaling systems; systems biology.

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Computational Biology*
Signal Transduction*

Grants and funding

R21 CA223901/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States