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What the simulations establish

The paper compares four active vertex-model mechanisms while holding passive tissue mechanics constant. All transform an initially rectangular, open-boundary epithelium into a circular state, but the routes differ: mechanochemical regulation is fastest and produces a wave-associated burst of T2 cell eliminations; fluctuating contractility is slowest and weak in both T1 and T2 remodeling. These are reported simulation outcomes, not measurements of living epithelia. Fluidization and topological pathways

The most convincing contribution

MSD is only partially discriminating: fluctuating contractility shows caging, whereas apolar motility, polar motility, and mechanochemical regulation become diffusive at long times. The stronger proposed fingerprint is the full spatial velocity-correlation function C(r): apolar motility is short-ranged and nonnegative, polar motility is longer-ranged and monotonic, fluctuating contractility has a short-range negative lobe, and mechanochemical regulation has the longest reported correlation length, approximately 3√A₀, plus a pronounced negative lobe. The mechanistic interpretation is plausible within the model because anticorrelation reflects local contraction/extension or wave phase opposition, but “unique” identification is not experimentally demonstrated. Velocity-correlation fingerprint

Critical assessment

• Strengths: one mechanical framework isolates force-organization scale; multiple observables converge on distinct remodeling pathways; the correlation analysis is directly compatible with live-cell tracking or velocimetry in principle. Integrated observable framework
• Key limitation: the paper does not report independent simulation replicate numbers, confidence intervals for the correlation lengths, parameter-sensitivity ranges for passive mechanics, or formal classification error under noisy/finite imaging. Thus, “resolves all four mechanisms” is stronger than the supplied quantitative evidence supports.
• Model boundary: the authors acknowledge that temporal persistence was not systematically varied, mixed activity states were excluded, and ECM interactions and three-dimensional architecture were omitted. These omissions matter because different mechanisms could produce overlapping correlation profiles once persistence, boundaries, substrate coupling, or mixtures are introduced. Declared scope and blind spots

Bottom line: The paper provides a useful mechanistic hypothesis and a promising measurement strategy, with high explanatory depth inside its model class. Confidence is moderate for the in-silico ranking and low-to-moderate for direct biological identification until known-activity tissues, mixed mechanisms, imaging noise, and independent implementations are tested. The conclusion would materially change if experimentally characterized tissues failed to reproduce the predicted joint relationship between correlation length, zero crossing, negative-lobe shape, and molecular or mechanical activity.

Author Review: Sahil IslamAuthor Review: Anupam GuptaAuthor Review: Mohd Suhail Rizvi

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Study Novelty

The systematic comparison of four force-generation scales and the proposal that correlation length plus correlation-function shape can discriminate them are novel within the supplied paper context. The underlying vertex-model and active-matter concepts are established, so the contribution is not wholly unprecedented.

Scientific Quality

The model is coherent, mechanistically interpretable, and uses several complementary observables. Quality is reduced because the supplied text reports no independent replicate counts, uncertainty intervals for most outcomes, formal classifier performance, or experimental validation. The paper is a preprint, and the extracted reference list is incomplete in places.

Study Generality

The conceptual principle may generalize, but demonstrated evidence is limited to a two-dimensional, confluent, open-boundary vertex model with isolated activity mechanisms and no ECM, three-dimensional structure, or mixed activity.

Study Usefulness

The proposed velocity-correlation analysis is experimentally actionable as a hypothesis-generating diagnostic, but practical usefulness depends on validation against tissues with independently known activity mechanisms and realistic imaging noise.

Study Reproducibility

Core equations, normalization, thresholds, nondimensional parameters, and many representative values are supplied. Reproducibility is limited by absent code/data links, unclear replicate structure, incomplete uncertainty reporting, and insufficient detail on initialization, parameter sweeps, and statistical aggregation.

Explanatory Depth

The study connects activity scale to T1/T2 topology, cell transport, morphology, stress spectra, and velocity correlations, offering a coherent multiscale explanation. Depth remains model-dependent because alternative force laws and temporal persistence are not systematically explored.