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most citedLife is physics: evolution as a collective phenomenon far from equilibrium

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q-bio.PE2017★ 103 cited

Multiple stable states in microbial communities explained by the stable marriage problem

Akshit Goyal, Veronika Dubinkina, Sergei Maslov

Experimental studies of microbial communities routinely reveal that they have multiple stable states. While each of these states is generally resilient, certain perturbations such…

q-bio.PE2017★ 87 cited

Diversity, stability, and reproducibility in stochastically assembled microbial ecosystems

Akshit Goyal, Sergei Maslov

Microbial ecosystems are remarkably diverse, stable, and often consist of a balanced mixture of core and peripheral species. Here we propose a conceptual model exhibiting all these…

quant-ph2017★ 5 cited

Quantum transport senses community structure in networks

Chenchao Zhao, Jun S. Song

Quantum time evolution exhibits rich physics, attributable to the interplay between the density and phase of a wave function. However, unlike classical heat diffusion, the wave nat…

q-bio.PE2017★ 29 cited

Onset of natural selection in auto-catalytic heteropolymers

Alexei V. Tkachenko, Sergei Maslov

Reduction of information entropy along with ever-increasing complexity are among the key signatures of living matter. Understanding the onset of such behavior in early prebiotic wo…

q-bio.PE2017★ 4 cited

Severe population collapses and species extinctions in multi-host epidemic dynamics

Sergei Maslov, Kim Sneppen

Most infectious diseases including more than half of known human pathogens are not restricted to just one host, yet much of the mathematical modeling of infections has been limited…

stat.ML2017★ 15 cited

Exact heat kernel on a hypersphere and its applications in kernel SVM

Chenchao Zhao, Jun S. Song

Many contemporary statistical learning methods assume a Euclidean feature space. This paper presents a method for defining similarity based on hyperspherical geometry and shows tha…