Nonlinear dynamics articles within Nature Communications

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  15 October 2022 | Open Access

  In vitro assembly, positioning and contraction of a division ring in minimal cells

  Constructing a minimal protein machinery for self-division of membrane compartments is a major goal of bottom-up synthetic biology. Here, authors achieved the assembly, placement and onset of contraction of a minimal division ring in lipid vesicles.

  • Shunshi Kohyama
  • , Adrián Merino-Salomón
  •  & Petra Schwille

• Article
  19 March 2021 | Open Access

  Nonlinear delay differential equations and their application to modeling biological network motifs

  Network motif models focus on small sub-networks in biological systems to quantitatively describe overall behavior but they often overlook time delays. Here, the authors systematically examine the most common network motifs via delay differential equations (DDE), often leading to more concise descriptions.

  • David S. Glass
  • , Xiaofan Jin
  •  & Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse

• Article
  13 July 2020 | Open Access

  Gene regulatory network inference from sparsely sampled noisy data

  Gene regulatory network inference is a topical problem in systems biology. Here, the authors presents BINGO, a powerful method for network inference from time series data.

  • Atte Aalto
  • , Lauri Viitasaari
  •  & Jorge Gonçalves

• Article
  05 March 2019 | Open Access

  A theoretical framework for controlling complex microbial communities

  Controlling microbial communities could help restore ecosystems and maintain healthy microbiota. Here, the authors introduce the notion of structural accessibility and develop a framework to identify minimal sets of driver species, manipulation of which could allow control of a microbial community.

  • Marco Tulio Angulo
  • , Claude H. Moog
  •  & Yang-Yu Liu

• Article
  08 January 2019 | Open Access

  On chaotic dynamics in transcription factors and the associated effects in differential gene regulation

  It is becoming clear that the dynamics of transcription factors may be important for gene regulation. Here, the authors study the implications of oscillatory and chaotic dynamics of NF-κB and demonstrate that it allows a degree of control of gene expression and can generate phenotypic heterogeneity.

  • Mathias L. Heltberg
  • , Sandeep Krishna
  •  & Mogens H. Jensen

• Article
  19 June 2017 | Open Access

  Fronts and waves of actin polymerization in a bistability-based mechanism of circular dorsal ruffles

  Circular dorsal ruffles (CDRs) are important for the vesicular uptake of extracellular matter, but the basis of their wave dynamics is not understood. Here, the authors propose and experimentally test a bistable reaction-diffusion system, which they show accounts for the typical CDR expansion and shrinkage and for aberrant formation of pinned waves and spirals.

  • Erik Bernitt
  • , Hans-Günther Döbereiner
  •  & Arik Yochelis

• Article
  21 April 2017 | Open Access

  Exploratory adaptation in large random networks

  Recent works suggest that cellular networks may respond to novel challenges on the time-scale of cellular lifetimes through large-scale perturbation of gene expression and convergence to a new state. Here, the authors demonstrate the theoretical feasibility of exploratory adaptation in cellular networks by showing that convergence to new states depends on known features of these networks.

  • Hallel I. Schreier
  • , Yoav Soen
  •  & Naama Brenner

• Article | 27 June 2013

  Realistic control of network dynamics

  Nonlinearity is a hallmark of complex networks, but has generally been regarded as an obstacle to controlling their behaviour. Here Cornelius et al.show how nonlinear dynamics can be harnessed to control a network and drive it to desired states.

  • Sean P. Cornelius
  • , William L. Kath
  •  & Adilson E. Motter