Forming the functional time in process of biochemical substance exchange between cells in a multicellular system

Abstract

In this paper, we shortly summarized current attitudes about time in biology and then we considered the functional time and the way of its emergence. To illustrate that, we chose the simulation of forming the functional time in the process of biochemical substance exchange between three cells in a multicellular system. For that purpose π-cell coordinate system is introduced. Finally, we established a functional time barcode which is a representation of system states through the chronological time, which shows data about the process of intercellular biochemical substance exchange to which it attaches. It represents states by varying the widths and spaces of parallel lines, where system is either synchronized or not. © 2012 World Scientific Publishing Company.