"The landscape analogy and collective `` decision-making `` are concepts unfamiliar to biologists , who have tended to focus on single genes acting in linear pathways . This made the work initially difficult to publish , notes Huang . '' It 's hard for biologists to move from thinking about single pathways to thinking about a landscape , which is the mathematical manifestation of the entirety of all the possible pathways , `` he says . '' A single pathway is not a good way to understand a whole process . Our goal has been to understand the driving force behind it. ``"
"Like the docking simulation , in development there is a pre-existing fitness landscape ( the womb ) . Both processes converge on similar endpoints each time it is run , both process are biased to a few endpoints and both processes reach local optima ( e.g . skin cells ) after the process id complete . http : //mybroadband.co.za/vb/picture .... pictureid=1857 Figure 1 : Similarities between development and a docking simulation employing a memetic algorithm . There are certainly many parallels between our own designed simulated docking runs and the development of life ."
"It 's hard for biologists to move from thinking about single pathways to thinking about a landscape , which is the mathematical manifestation of the entirety of all the possible pathways"
"There are certainly many parallels between our own designed simulated docking runs and the development of life ."