Nonlocal decoding of positional and correlational information during development
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| author | Zhang, Alex Chen Yi Hoyos, Pablo Mateu Brückner, David Tkačik, Gašper |
| author_facet | Zhang, Alex Chen Yi Hoyos, Pablo Mateu Brückner, David Tkačik, Gašper |
| contents | In many developmental systems, cells differentiate into a tissue by reading out morphogen concentration fields, a process fundamentally limited by noise. How much can the precision of this process be improved by nonlocal information, e.g., via cell-cell communication? Using a Bayes-optimal framework, we show that positional inference depends crucially on morphogen spatial correlations and on the ``structural prior'' that encodes the geometry of the cellular lattice performing the readout. We derive upper bounds on positional information gain due to nonlocal readout and identify signal processing algorithms that approximate optimal positional inference, as well as simple chemical reaction schemes which implement such algorithms. Our theory suggests that correlational information can be exploited to significantly enhance developmental precision. |
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| spellingShingle | Nonlocal decoding of positional and correlational information during development Zhang, Alex Chen Yi Hoyos, Pablo Mateu Brückner, David Tkačik, Gašper Biological Physics In many developmental systems, cells differentiate into a tissue by reading out morphogen concentration fields, a process fundamentally limited by noise. How much can the precision of this process be improved by nonlocal information, e.g., via cell-cell communication? Using a Bayes-optimal framework, we show that positional inference depends crucially on morphogen spatial correlations and on the ``structural prior'' that encodes the geometry of the cellular lattice performing the readout. We derive upper bounds on positional information gain due to nonlocal readout and identify signal processing algorithms that approximate optimal positional inference, as well as simple chemical reaction schemes which implement such algorithms. Our theory suggests that correlational information can be exploited to significantly enhance developmental precision. |
| title | Nonlocal decoding of positional and correlational information during development |
| topic | Biological Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20536 |