The Living Cell - Molecular Theory of the Living Cell - page 286

Fig. 10.8 (continued)
The eight-dimensional supernetwork of Fig. 9.2 reproduced as Fig. 10.8c ,isa
network version of the Bhopalator model of the cell which is a molecular version. The
most important new addition to the supernetwork model is the concept of
“renormalization” (Sect. 2.4 ), namely, the cooperation among many entities of the
cell to act as a transient unit of biological action. These so-called renormalization
cones (also referred to as dissipatons, SOWAWN machines, or hyperstructures
(Norris et al. 1999)) are symbolically represented as circular cones in Fig. 10.8c .
The characteristic features of these three models of the cell are summarized in
Table 10.6 . The key theoretical concepts embodied in the models are listed in the
second rowof the table. The experimental findings that played key roles in the genesis
of the models are given in the third row. The most pronounced differences among the
models are their increasing complexities as evident in the increasing number of nodes
and edges summarized in Rows 4 and 5. One surprising finding about Table 10.6 is
the fact that, despite the enormous increase in the complexity of the models over the