Models of cell processes are far from the edge of chaos

KH Park, FX Costa, LM Rocha, R Albert, JC Rozum - PRX life, 2023 - APS
Complex living systems are thought to exist at the “edge of chaos” separating the ordered
dynamics of robust function from the disordered dynamics of rapid environmental …

A meta-analysis of Boolean network models reveals design principles of gene regulatory networks

C Kadelka, TM Butrie, E Hilton, J Kinseth, A Schmidt… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) play a central role in cellular decision-making.
Understanding their structure and how it impacts their dynamics constitutes thus a …

Challenges and opportunities for digital twins in precision medicine: a complex systems perspective

M De Domenico, L Allegri, G Caldarelli… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The adoption of digital twins (DTs) in precision medicine is increasingly viable, propelled by
extensive data collection and advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), alongside …

Diversified dynamic effects and their order origins in Boolean functions

Y Yao, ZG Huang, D Pei - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2025 - Elsevier
Interaction relationships are fundamental to the behavior of complex systems. This study,
grounded in Boolean discrete systems, conducts a comprehensive investigation of ordered …

[HTML][HTML] Evolving higher-order synergies reveals a trade-off between stability and information-integration capacity in complex systems

TF Varley, J Bongard - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
There has recently been an explosion of interest in how “higher-order” structures emerge in
complex systems comprised of many interacting elements (often called “synergistic” …

Robustness of biomolecular networks suggests functional modules far from the edge of chaos

KH Park, FX Costa, LM Rocha, R Albert, JC Rozum - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
A common feature of complex systems is their ability to balance the flexibility needed to
adapt to their environment with the rigidity required for robust function. It has been …

CANA v1. 0.0 and schematodes: efficient quantification of symmetry in Boolean automata

AM Marcus, J Rozum, H Sizek, LM Rocha - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The biomolecular networks underpinning cell function exhibit canalization, or the buffering of
fluctuations required to function in a noisy environment. One understudied putative …

The Hardness of Local Certification of Finite-State Dynamics

D Maldonado, P Montealegre… - Latin American Symposium …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Finite-State Dynamics (FSD) is one of the simplest and constrained distributed
systems. An FSD is defined by an n-node network, with each node maintaining an internal …