Molecular Information Theory

• A Brief Introduction to the use of information theory in molecular biology.

• How (and why) to find a needle in a haystack Article in The Economist (April 5th-11th 1997, British version: p. 105-107, American version: p. 73-75, Asian version: p. 79-81).
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• Visualizing DNA binding sites: Sequence Logos and Walkers by Paul N. Hengen, Ph.D.

• Sequence Logos: a quantitative graphical display for binding sites and proteins. Go for the Logo!

• How To Read Sequence Logos

• Movie of a walker
  

• Poster: Sequence Logos, Scan and Walker as complete replacements for consensus sequences. This is a general purpose method for using information theory to analyze sequences.

• Theory of Molecular Machines

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