Models related to biology




B. Derrida and D. Bessis, Statistical properties of valleys in the annealed random map model J. Phys. A 21, L509-L519 (1988) [pdf]

B. Derrida, L. Peliti, Evolution in a flat fitness landscape Bull. Math. Biol. 53, 355-382 (1991) [pdf]

P. G. Higgs, B. Derrida, Stochastic models for species formation in evolving populations J. Phys. A24, L985-L991 (1991) [pdf]

B. Derrida, R.B. Griffiths, P.G. Higgs, A model of directed walks with random self interactions Europhys. Lett. 18, 361-366 (1992)

P.G. Higgs, B. Derrida, Genetic distance and species formation in evolving populations J. Mol. Evol. 35, 454-465 (1992) [pdf]

J. De Boer, B. Derrida, H. Flyvbjerg, A.D. Jackson, T. Wettig, A simple model of self-organized biological evolution Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 906-909 (1994) [pdf]

B. Derrida, Spin glasses, random Boolean networks and simple models of evolution, Proceedings of the Trieste Conference on Nonlinear cooperative phenomena in biological systems, August 1997, 216-226 in Non linear cooperative phenomena in biological systems Ed L. Matsson, World Scientific 1998

B. Derrida, B. Jung-Muller, The genealogical tree of a chromosome J. Stat. Phys. 94, 277-298 (1999) [pdf]

B. Derrida, S.C. Manrubia, D.H. Zanette, Statistical properties of genealogical trees Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1987-1990 (1999) cond-mat/9902033 [pdf]

B. Derrida, S.C. Manrubia, D.H. Zanette, On the genealogy of a population of biparental individuals J. Theor. Biol. 203, 303-315 (2000) physics/0003016 [pdf]

B. Derrida, S.C. Manrubia, D.H. Zanette, Distribution of repetitions of ancestors in genealogical trees Physica A 281, 1-16 (2000) cond-mat/9912059 [pdf]

B. Derrida, T.M.A. Fink, Sequence determination from overlapping fragments: a simple model of shotgun sequencing Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 068106 (2002) [pdf]

S.C. Manrubia, B. Derrida, D.H. Zanette, Genealogy in the era of genomics American Scientist 91, 158-165 (2003)

D. Simon, B. Derrida, Evolution of the most recent common ancestor of a population with no selection J. Stat. Mech. P05002 (2006) cond-mat/0601167 [pdf]

E. Brunet, B. Derrida, A. H. Mueller, S. Munier, Noisy traveling waves: Effect of selection on genealogies Europhys. Lett., 76, 1-7 (2006) cond-mat/0603160 [pdf]

E. Brunet, B. Derrida, A. H. Mueller, S. Munier, Effect of selection on ancestry: an exactly soluble case and its phenomenological generalization Phys. Rev. E 76, 041104 (2007) cond-mat/0704.3389 [pdf]

B. Derrida, D. Simon, The survival probability of a branching random walk in presence of an absorbing wall EPL 78, 60006 (2007) cond-mat/0703353 [pdf]

D. Simon, B. Derrida, Quasi-stationary regime of a branching random walk in presence of an absorbing wall J. Stat. Phys. 131, 203-233 (2008) cond-mat/0710.3689 [pdf]

E. Brunet, B. Derrida, D. Simon, Universal tree structures in directed polymers and models of evolving populations Phys. Rev. E 78, 061102 (2008) cond-mat/0806.1603 [pdf]