Quantification of Nematic Cell Polarity in Three-dimensional Tissues

no code implementations • 18 Apr 2019 • André Scholich, Simon Syga, Hernán Morales-Navarrete, Fabián Segovia-Miranda, Hidenori Nonaka, Kirstin Meyer, Walter de Back, Lutz Brusch, Yannis Kalaidzidis, Marino Zerial, Frank Jülicher, Benjamin M. Friedrich

We propose a conceptual and algorithmic framework to characterize complex patterns of polarity proteins on the surface of a cell in terms of a multipole expansion.

Open-Ended Question Answering

Testing Optimality of Sequential Decision-Making

no code implementations • 4 Jan 2018 • Meik Dörpinghaus, Izaak Neri, Édgar Roldán, Heinrich Meyr, Frank Jülicher

This paper provides a statistical method to test whether a system that performs a binary sequential hypothesis test is optimal in the sense of minimizing the average decision times while taking decisions with given reliabilities.

Decision Making