The past decade has witnessed significant developments in molecular biology techniques, fluorescent labeling, and super-resolution microscopy, and together these advances have vastly increased our quantitative understanding of the cell. This detailed knowledge has concomitantly opened the door for biophysical modeling on a cellular scale. There have been comprehensive models produced describing many processes such as motility, transport, gene regulation, and chemotaxis. However, in this review we focus on a specific set of phenomena, namely cell polarization, F-actin waves, and cytokinesis. In each case, we compare and contrast various published models, highlight the relevant aspects of the biology, and provide a sense of the direction in which the field is moving. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014.
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Sept, D., & Carlsson, A. E. (2014). Modeling large-scale dynamic processes in the cell: Polarization, waves, and division. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics, 47(3), 221–248. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033583514000079
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