Centre for Craniofacial Regeneration and Biology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Biophys J. 2021 Oct 5;120(19):4139-4141. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.08.041. Epub 2021 Sep 2.
Biophysical modeling of development started with Alan Turing. His two-morphogen reaction-diffusion model was a radical but powerful simplification. Despite its apparent limitations, the model captured real developmental processes that only recently have been validated at the molecular level in many systems. The precision and robustness of reaction-diffusion patterning, despite boundary condition-dependence, remain active areas of investigation in developmental biology.
发育的生物物理建模始于艾伦·图灵。他的双形态发生物反应扩散模型是一种激进但强大的简化。尽管存在明显的局限性,但该模型捕捉到了真实的发育过程,这些过程直到最近才在许多系统的分子水平上得到验证。反应扩散模式的精确性和鲁棒性,尽管依赖于边界条件,仍然是发育生物学中活跃的研究领域。