Federico C 28 may 2008 (EDT) As far as I have understood the
project, we are trying to artificially reproduce Turing
patterns; a kind of patterns that could be generated from a
homogeneous media, that have been studied extensively,
reproduced chemically and that are thought to have an important
role in some process of morphogenesis. Apparently some naturally
occurring patterns seem to match and resemble Turing patterns,
such as those seen in the organization of tricomas in
Arabidopsis thaliana’s leafs or the jaguar spots, yet it’s still
controversial whether or not they are actually that kind of
patterns for the genetic network that underlies its formation is
unknown. While we could analyze the variation in naturally
occurring patterns and dwell into the genetics of an organism
(basically, hammering the organism by knocking out genes), a
different approach to the problem; the construction of synthetic
networks that produce patterns in organisms that previously
didn’t have them, might to be an insightful and r