Connection between noise-induced symmetry breaking and an information-decoding function for intracellular networks.

The biological function of noise-induced symmetry breaking (NISB) is still unclear even though it may potentially occur in noisy intracellular systems. In this work, I demonstrate that information decoding from a noisy signal is a potential biological function of NISB by revealing that NISB naturally emerges from an optimal information-decoding dynamics and that several intracellular networks can be identified with the information-decoding dynamics. I also propose a mean first passage time profile as a way to experimentally identify NISB.