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  bibo_abstract:
  - In many developmental systems, cells differentiate into a tissue by reading out
    morphogen concentration fields, a process fundamentally limited by noise. How
    much can the precision of this process be improved by nonlocal information, e.g.,
    via cell-cell communication? Using a Bayes-optimal framework, we show that positional
    inference depends crucially on morphogen spatial correlations and on the "structural
    prior" that encodes the geometry of the cellular lattice performing the readout,
    thereby determining what a cell can reliably assume about the position of its
    neighbors when interpreting nonlocal morphogen signals. We derive upper bounds
    on positional information gain due to nonlocal readout and identify signal processing
    algorithms that approximate optimal positional inference, as well as simple chemical
    reaction schemes which implement such algorithms. Our theory suggests that correlational
    information can be exploited to significantly enhance developmental precision.@eng
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Chen Y
      foaf_name: Zhang, Chen Y
      foaf_surname: Zhang
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=81b43fb8-c9d5-11ef-bf68-ade532a1f204
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Pablo
      foaf_name: Mateu Hoyos, Pablo
      foaf_surname: Mateu Hoyos
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=50b236c7-50c1-11ef-bb9a-a2375694f8b5
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: David
      foaf_name: Brückner, David
      foaf_surname: Brückner
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=e1e86031-6537-11eb-953a-f7ab92be508d
    orcid: 0000-0001-7205-2975
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Gašper
      foaf_name: Tkačik, Gašper
      foaf_surname: Tkačik
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=3D494DCA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
    orcid: 0000-0002-6699-1455
  bibo_doi: 10.1103/mbjk-v4ym
  bibo_volume: 137
  dct_date: 2026^xs_gYear
  dct_isPartOf:
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/0031-9007
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/ 1079-7114
  dct_language: eng
  dct_publisher: American Physical Society@
  dct_title: Nonlocal decoding of positional and correlational information during
    development@
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