Information-based fitness and the emergence of criticality in living systems

Morphogenesis at criticality

(2014) D. Krotov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Functional Benefits of Criticality in the Cortex

(2012) Woodrow L. Shew et al.   NEUROSCIENTIST

Adaptation to Optimal Cell Growth through Self-Organized Criticality

(2012) Chikara Furusawa et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Scale-Invariant Correlations in Dynamic Bacterial Clusters

(2012) Xiao Chen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Emergent Criticality through Adaptive Information Processing in Boolean Networks

(2012) Alireza Goudarzi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Statistical mechanics for natural flocks of birds

(2012) W. Bialek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the criticality of inferred models

(2011) Iacopo Mastromatteo et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

Are Biological Systems Poised at Criticality?

(2011) Thierry Mora et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS

Integrated Information Increases with Fitness in the Evolution of Animats

(2011) Jeffrey A. Edlund et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Maximum entropy models for antibody diversity

(2010) T. Mora et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cell Lineage Determination in State Space: A Systems View Brings Flexibility to Dogmatic Canonical Rules

(2010) Sui Huang   PLOS BIOLOGY

Critical Dynamics in Genetic Regulatory Networks: Examples from Four Kingdoms

(2008) Enrique Balleza et al.   PLoS One

Gene expression dynamics in the macrophage exhibit criticality

(2008) M. Nykter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The criticality hypothesis: how local cortical networks might optimize information processing

(2007) J. M Beggs   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES