Quantifying the Waddington landscape and biological paths for development and differentiation

Jin Wang1, Kun Zhang, Li Xu

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, People's Republic of China. jin.wang.1@stonybrook.edu

Summary

We developed a theoretical framework to quantify the Waddington landscape and cell development paths. This model explains cell differentiation, stability, and reverse differentiation, revealing robust developmental dynamics.