Wolpert positional information (French flag)

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Wolpert 1969: cells read morphogen concentration C(x) (e.g. Bicoid in Drosophila) and adopt fates by threshold partitioning of C. Information capacity bounded by Shannon entropy of fate-distribution given concentration-noise σ; precision…

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