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Information Theory in Genome Analysis

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Membrane Computing (CMC 2015)

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Classical concepts of Information Theory are quickly summarized and their application to the computational analysis of genomes is outlined. Genomes are long strings, and this open the possibility of considering them as information sources. From this viewpoint, it turns out that information entropy, mutual information, entropic divergences, codes, and dictionaries (finite formal languages) are fundamental tools for extracting the biological information on which biological functionalities are based on. The importance of random genomes is also motivated, and some genomic distributions are presented and discussed.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Centro di BioMedicina Computazionale, Università degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Italy

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  2. Turku Center for Computer Science, Turku, Finland

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  3. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    José M. Sempere

  4. University of Milan-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

    Claudio Zandron

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Manca, V. (2015). Information Theory in Genome Analysis. In: Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A., Sempere, J., Zandron, C. (eds) Membrane Computing. CMC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9504. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28475-0_1

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