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Turing instability in activator-inhibitor systems provides a paradigm of nonequilibrium pattern formation; it has been extensively investigated for biological and chemical processes. Turing pattern formation should furthermore be possible…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-05-13 Hiroya Nakao , Alexander S. Mikhailov

Spontaneous pattern formation in homogeneous systems is ubiquitous in nature. Although Turing demonstrated that spatial patterns can emerge in reaction-diffusion (RD) systems when the homogeneous state becomes linearly unstable, it remains…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Shuonan Wu , Bing Yu , Yuhai Tu , Lei Zhang

Reaction-diffusion (Turing) systems are fundamental to the formation of spatial patterns in nature and engineering. These systems are governed by a set of non-linear partial differential equations containing parameters that determine the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Jordon Kho , Winston Koh , Jian Cheng Wong , Pao-Hsiung Chiu , Chin Chun Ooi

Self-organized pattern behavior is ubiquitous throughout nature, from fish schooling to collective cell dynamics during organism development. Qualitatively these patterns display impressive consistency, yet variability inevitably exists…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-08 Melissa R. McGuirl , Alexandria Volkening , Björn Sandstede

The wavelength of a periodic spatial structure of Turing type is an intrinsic property of the considered reaction-diffusion dynamics and we address the question of its control at the microscopic scale for given dynamical parameters. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-09-26 Gabriel Morgado , Bogdan Nowakowski , Annie Lemarchand

Interactions between neighboring cells are essential for generating or refining patterns in a number of biological systems. We propose a discrete filtering approach to predict how networks of cells modulate spatially varying input signals…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-14 Melinda Liu Perkins , Murat Arcak

Three-dimensional shell-like structures can be obtained spontaneously at the microscale from the self-folding of 2D templates of rigid panels. At least for simple structures, the motion of each panel is consistent with a Brownian process…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-18 T. S. A. N. Simões , H. P. M. Melo , N. A. M. Araújo

Confirming Turing's theory of morphogens in developmental processes is challenging, and synthetic biology has opened new avenues for testing Turing's predictions. Synthetic mammalian pattern formation has been recently achieved through a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-22 Mohamed Amine Ouchdiri , Saad Benjelloun , Adnane Saoud , Irene Otero-Muras

In this work, we present and analyze a general framework for vegetation dynamics in arid and semi-arid ecosystems in which non-local interactions are purely competitive. The generality of the formulation enables a systematic search for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-21 Jelle van der Voort , Ricardo Martinez-Garcia , Arjen Doelman

Machine learning models of vastly different modalities and architectures are being trained to predict the behavior of molecules, materials, and proteins. However, it remains unclear whether they learn similar internal representations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Sathya Edamadaka , Soojung Yang , Ju Li , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

Turing patterns play a fundamental role in morphogenesis and population dynamics, encoding key information about the underlying biological mechanisms. Yet, traditional inverse problems have largely relied on non-biological data such as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Yuhan Li , Hongyu Liu , Catharine W. K. Lo

The formation of self-organized patterns is key to the morphogenesis of multicellular organisms, although a comprehensive theory of biological pattern formation is still lacking. Here, we propose a minimal model combining tissue mechanics…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 P. Recho , A. Hallou , E. Hannezo

Traditional top-down robotic design often lacks the adaptability needed to handle real-world complexities, prompting the need for more flexible approaches. Therefore, this study introduces a novel cellular plasticity model tailored for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Trevor R. Smith , Thomas J. Smith , Nicholas S. Szczecinski , Sergiy Yakovenko , Yu Gu

Emergence of new protein structures has proved difficult to trace in nature and engineer in the laboratory. However, one aspect of structure evolution has proved immensely helpful for determining the three-dimensional structure of proteins…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-24 Amy I. Gilson , Ahmee Marshall-Christensen , Jeong-Mo Choi , Eugene I. Shakhnovich

In this letter we propose a Turing model of the formation of patterns of visible light emission intensity in atmospheric pressure gas discharges. The electron density and the electron temperature take the roles of activator and inhibitor…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-01-19 Xi Chen , Yao Zhou , Xi-Ming Zhu , Yi-Kang Pu , F. Iza , M. A. Lieberman

Patterns forming spontaneously in extended, three-dimensional, dissipative systems are likely to excite several homogeneous soft modes ($\approx$ hydrodynamic modes) of the underlying physical system, much more than quasi one- and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Axel G. Rossberg

Control over the physical properties of materials is ubiquitously required in many fields. One means by which this can be achieved is controlling the internal structure of multi-component materials with an eye to enhancing mechanical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-22 Rikuya Ishikawa , Marie Tani , Rei Kurita

Models of diffusion driven pattern formation that rely on the Turing mechanism are utilized in many areas of science. However, many such models suffer from the defect of requiring fine tuning of parameters or an unrealistic separation of…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-17 Thomas Butler , Nigel Goldenfeld

Dewetting of thin liquid films is monitored in situ by atomic force microscopy, results are compared with simulations. The experimental setting is mimicked as close as possible using the experimental parameters including the effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jürgen Becker , Günther Grün , Ralf Seemann , Karin Jacobs

We hereby develop the theory of Turing instability for reaction-diffusion systems defined on m-directed hypergraphs, the latter being generalization of hypergraphs where nodes forming hyperedges can be shared into two disjoint sets, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Marie Dorchain , Wilfried Segnou , Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti