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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Deriving a genetic regulatory network from an optimization principle.

Thomas R Sokolowski, Thomas Gregor, William Bialek, Gašper Tkačik

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. Morphogens in the evolution of size, shape and patterning.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2024
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  16. Information content and optimization of self-organized developmental systems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Thomas R SokolowskiInstitute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg AT-3400, Austria.
Thomas GregorJoseph Henry Laboratory of Physics and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.ORCID 0000-0001-9460-139X
William BialekJoseph Henry Laboratory of Physics and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.ORCID 0000-0002-7823-3862
Gašper TkačikInstitute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg AT-3400, Austria.

Funding

The Biophysical and Molecular Mechanisms of Reliability in DevelopmentR01GM097275 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI GREGOR, THOMAS · 2011 to 2024
$4.9M
Control of the 4D chromatin landscape underlying gene activity during developmentU01DK127429 · NIDDK · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI GREGOR, THOMAS, LEVINE, MICHAEL STEVEN · 2020 to 2024
$3.2M
Imaging chromosome dynamics and measuring its impact on transcriptional activityU01DA047730 · NIDA · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI GREGOR, THOMAS, LEVINE, MICHAEL STEVEN · 2018 to 2019
$740k
Austrian Science Fund (FWF) FWF P28844HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01GM097275HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH) U01DA047730HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH) U01DK127429Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) (none_)John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (JSGMF) (none)National Science Foundation (NSF) PHY-1734030NIDA NIH HHS U01 DA047730NIDDK NIH HHS U01 DK127429NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM097275Simons Foundation (SF) 821703
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many biological systems operate near the physical limits to their performance, suggesting that aspects of their behavior and underlying mechanisms could be derived from optimization principles. However, such principles have often been applied only in simplified models. Here, we explore a detailed mechanistic model of the gap gene network in the

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Gene Regulatory NetworksModels, GeneticAnimalsDrosophilaDrosophila melanogasterEmbryo, NonmammalianGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalDrosophilaevolutiongene regulatory networksoptimization

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PMID39752518
PMCPMC11725783

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