Biologist describes optimized cellular replication as a systems engineering problem
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—Biologist Rami Pugatch of Princeton's Simons Center for Systems Biology has characterized the self-replication process of Escherichia coli according to a scheduling policy model derived from industrial processes. The paper, titled "Greedy scheduling of cellular self-replication leads to optimal doubling times with a log-Frechet distribution," appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.