Control of cell division and coordination with other cell-cycle processes

This is a chapter from the free textbook "Economic Principles in Cell Biology" Cells require coordination of growth and division, as well as coordination of cell-cycle progression with several essential sub-tasks, such as chromosome replication and segregation. Single-cell dynamics data offer correlation patterns that can be used to understand these decisional processes. The cell-cycle progression and cell-division decisional process can be described by continuous-time and discrete-time stochastic processes. There are quantitative relationships that connect growth, cell-cycle progression, and resource allocation. There are differences and common points in the decisional processes by which single cells of different organisms commit to divide (sizers, adders, accumulators, titration-dilutors, etc.