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indivisible or a mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade pathway. We have

a cellular communication process from X to Y as illustrated in Figure 18.3a and

signal molecules travel from X toward Y . A simple way to simulate this stochastic

diffusion process is to use the Monte Carlo method. If the neighborhood of the

signal molecules is defined by a two-dimensional lattice (e.g., Moore neighborhood

in cellular automata), the correlation of the concentration values whose measures are

spatially distributed provides an indication on the spreading process of molecular

signaling, which exhibits a kind of receive-and-forward ...