From Flatland to Jupiter: Searching for Rules of Interaction Across Biological Scales
From Flatland to Jupiter: Searching for Rules of Interaction Across Biological Scales
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从平地到木星:寻找跨生物尺度的相互作用规则
DOI:
10.1093/icb/icab159
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Walter, Nils G
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作者:
Grillo, Claudia A;Holford, Mandë;Walter, Nils G
In this future-spanning perspective, we examine how an agent-based model could be used to define general rules for interactions across biological systems and evolutionary time. To date, there have been a number of attempts to simulate the emergence of ecological communities using agent-based models of individuals that have evolving traits. Here we speculate whether it is possible to use this computational modeling to simulate self-organizing systems and, importantly, to decipher universal principles that govern biological interactions. This perspective is a thought exercise, meant to extrapolate from current knowledge to how we may make Jupiter-shot leaps to further advance the biosciences in the 21stcentury.