Talk:Bow tie (biology)

Spelling of Bow Tie

I know this is a can of worms in the research literate on the topic, but we should try to be consistent with general practice, even though the literature is filled with exceptions. Although this article uses 'bow tie' as an adjective without hyphenation, such spelling is rare in the research literature, where it is either 'bow-tie' or bowtie, eg 'bowtie architecture'. The authors who are cited in the article using the term, Doyle and Csete, actually switch from 'bow-tie' in their 2004 article to 'bowtie' in their 2011 article. I suggest this entry change to using 'bowtie' throughout, ie for both use as a noun and an adjective. At the very least, the entry should be changed to use 'bow-tie' as the adjective form and 'bow tie' as the noun form. Nick (talk) 19:40, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Hourglass is an alternative term for bowtie

This is a request for someone with more editing experience and expertise to highlight that narrow-waisted architectures are referred to as both bowtie and hourglass architectures, as this article, On the Complexity of Engineered Systems (and its effect on protocol deployment), discusses: "While the view of architecture as constraints that deconstrain originated in biology [11], similar (if not isomorphic) concepts are found in many engineered systems, including the Internet[8] [1] and many manufacturing, transportation and economic systems[9]. In biology, this structure is typically called a bowtie. In engineered systems like the Internet, the same structure is generally called an hourglass (the key difference revolves around whether a system’s layering is seen as either horizontal or vertical).' Thanks in advance. Nick (talk) 19:48, 23 April 2019 (UTC)