Information bounds on the accuracy of cell polarization

Tau-Mu Yi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0333522

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Information bounds on the accuracy of cell polarization

Tau-Mu Yi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: tmy@ucsb.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-2020

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Information bounds on the accuracy of cell polarization

Tau-Mu Yi

Published: September 30, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0333522

About the Authors

Tau-Mu Yi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: tmy@ucsb.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-2020

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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