Kauffman and antichaos and numerology

From: Damien Broderick (thespike@satx.rr.com)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2007 - 19:17:23 MDT


At 05:10 PM 8/22/2007 -0700, Matt Mahoney wrote:

>He found that the number of cell types
>(about 250) is very roughly the square root of the number of genes (about
>30,000).

Well, only if 175 is very roughly 250. Curiously, when SK came up
with that bright idea, 250 was very roughly 340, which is
approximately the square root of 115,000 or so (then the gene # estimate).

Damien Broderick



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