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Cells do not seem to have “clocks” in the same sense as synchronous sequential digital circuits. But cells must operate extremely reliably in spite of large amounts of noise and environmental variations which would result in timing variation in a Boolean model of cellular control.
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Dill, D.L. (2011). Are Cells Asynchronous Circuits?. In: Jhala, R., Schmidt, D. (eds) Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation. VMCAI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6538. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18275-4_1
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