The threshold of an excitable system serves as a control mechanism for noise filtering during chemotaxis

• Sayak Bhattacharya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0957-7530

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• Pablo A. Iglesias

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pi@jhu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0840-155X

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