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Ambiguous signals and efficient codes
Marianne Bauer, William Bialek
In many biological networks the responses of individual elements are ambiguous. We consider a scenario in which many sensors respond to a shared signal, each with limited informati…
A brief tutorial on information theory
Tarek Tohme, William Bialek
At the 2023 Les Houches Summer School on Theoretical Biological Physics, several students asked for some background on information theory, and so we added a tutorial to the schedul…
Ambitions for theory in the physics of life
William Bialek
Theoretical physicists have been fascinated by the phenomena of life for more than a century. As we engage with more realistic descriptions of living systems, however, things get c…
Scale invariance in early embryonic development
Miloš Nikolić, Victoria Antonetti, Feng Liu +6
The body plan of the fruit fly is determined by the expression of just a handful of genes. We show that the spatial patterns of expression for several of these genes scale precisel…
Finding the last bits of positional information
Lauren McGough, Helena Casademunt, Miloš Nikolić +3
In a developing embryo, information about the position of cells is encoded in the concentrations of "morphogen" molecules. In the fruit fly, the local concentrations of just a hand…