ReviewTrends in cell biology2015
Theory in Biology: Figure 1 or Figure 7?
Review in Trends in cell biology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Biology Needs Philosophy, But What Philosophy?Bioscience · 2026Review
- Start early and pack light: Collaborative adventures in theory and experiment.Seminars in cell & developmental biology · 2025Review
- A mathematical model clarifies the ABC Score formula used in enhancer-gene prediction.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Seeing with an extra sense.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- Transcriptional activators in the early Drosophila embryo perform different kinetic roles.Cell systems · 2023Article
- On the Role of Theory and Modeling in Neuroscience.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
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- A computational framework for testing hypotheses of the minimal mechanical requirements for cell aggregation using early annual killifish embryogenesis as a model.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Article
- Arnold tongue entrainment reveals dynamical principles of the embryonic segmentation clock.eLife · 2022Article
- Enhancer grammar in development, evolution, and disease: dependencies and interplay.Developmental cell · 2021Review
- Mitotic spindle: lessons from theoretical modeling.Molecular biology of the cell · 2021Article
- Understanding the evolution of interspecies interactions in microbial communities.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Negative reciprocity, not ordered assembly, underlies the interaction of Sox2 and Oct4 on DNA.eLife · 2019Article
- "Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful"-a cross-disciplinary agenda for building useful models in cell biology and biophysics.Biophysical reviews · 2018Review
- The biology and polymer physics underlying large-scale chromosome organization.Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark) · 2018Review
- Transcriptional precision and accuracy in development: from measurements to models and mechanisms.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2017Review
- Finding your inner modeler: An NSF-sponsored workshop to introduce cell biologists to modeling/computational approaches.Cellular logistics · 2017Article
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Abstract
The pace of modern science is staggering. The quantities of data now flowing from DNA sequencers, fluorescence and electron microscopes, mass spectrometers, and other mind-blowing instruments leave us faced with information overload. This explosion in data has brought on its heels a concomitant need for efforts at the kinds of synthesis and unification we see in theoretical physics. Often in cell biology, when theoretical modeling takes place, it is as a figure 7 reflection on experiments that have already been done, with data fitting providing a metric of success. Figure 1 theory, by way of contrast, is about living dangerously by turning our thinking into formal mathematical predictions and confronting that math with experiments that have not yet been done.
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