... Physicists have long hoped that these collective behaviors could be described using the ideas and methods of statistical mechanics. .... larger scale experiments have made it possible to construct statistical mechanics models of biological systems directly from real data. We review the surprising successes of this inverse approach, using examples form families of proteins, networks of neurons, and flocks of birds. Remarkably, in all these cases the models that emerge from the data are poised at a very special point in their parameter space--a critical point. This suggests there may be some deeper theoretical principle behind the behavior of these diverse systems. arxiv.org/abs/1012.2242
Posted on: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 06:38:57 +0000
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