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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Learning the space-time phase diagram of bacterial swarm expansion.

Hannah Jeckel, Eric Jelli, Raimo Hartmann, Praveen K Singh, Rachel Mok, Jan Frederik Totz, Lucia Vidakovic, Bruno Eckhardt, Jörn Dunkel, Knut Drescher

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Hannah JeckelMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany.
Eric JelliMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany.
Raimo HartmannMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany.
Praveen K SinghMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany.
Rachel MokDepartment of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Jan Frederik TotzInstitute for Theoretical Physics, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany.
Lucia VidakovicMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany.
Bruno EckhardtFachbereich Physik and LOEWE Zentrum für Synthetische Mikrobiologie SYNMIKRO, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35032 Marburg, Germany.
Jörn DunkelDepartment of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; k.drescher@mpi-marburg.mpg.de dunkel@mit.edu.
Knut DrescherMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany; k.drescher@mpi-marburg.mpg.de dunkel@mit.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7340-2444

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coordinated dynamics of individual components in active matter are an essential aspect of life on all scales. Establishing a comprehensive, causal connection between intracellular, intercellular, and macroscopic behaviors has remained a major challenge due to limitations in data acquisition and analysis techniques suitable for multiscale dynamics. Here, we combine a high-throughput adaptive microscopy approach with machine learning, to identify key biological and physical mechanisms that determine distinct microscopic and macroscopic collective behavior phases which develop as

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