Intracellular Information Processing through Encoding and Decoding of Dynamic Signaling Features
Fig 1
Integrated model of signaling dynamics and gene regulatory network.
Comparison of the salient features of a modern communication network (left) to a biochemical signaling and gene regulatory network (right). The functional information in a receptor stimulus is encoded in temporal features of signals in a similar manner as in communication networks, where information is encoded in characteristic features (such as amplitude, phase, frequency, etc.) of the signals. These encoded signals are transmitted over the regulatory network (or channel) and decoded downstream (or receiver end).