Unpublished draft

Biologist learns control theory

How many of these concepts are found in developmental molecular biology?

Quite a few. Let’s take a look at building blocks of control circuits and try to find their analogues in gene regulatory networks.

Some of the major control modules are:

Multiplexer (MUX)

“If condition X, choose signal A, otherwise choose signal B.”

Essentially implements selection.

if S:    output = Aelse:    output = B