What Is Life? - Molecular Theory of the Living Cell - page 570

the order parameter in active phase transitions may be identified with the degree of
coupling between two or more dynamic processes or dissipative structures,
exemplified by the coupling of the RNA trajectories shown in Table 12.12 and the
positively and negatively correlated trajectories of the glycolytic and oxidative phos-
phorylation RNAs observed in budding yeast during glucose-galactose shift (see
panel a in Fig. 12.2 ) . In general, any pattern of distributions of RNA trajectories as
visualized on a two-dimensional principal grid produced by the ViDaExpert program
or its equivalent may be viewed as an order parameter of active phase transitions (see
Sect. 12.8.2 ) .