April 11, 2003
Friday - 12:15 pm in Swain West 238
Speaker: Dr. Chris Adami, Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech
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Title: Applications of Information Theory to Molecular Biology: From Structure Prediction to Drug Design

Abstract:
Curiously, information theory is not widely regarded as an important tool in molecular biology even though it is generally accepted that sequence data represents information.

In this talk, I point out several uses of information theory in molecular biology: Quantifying the amount of information in a gene, predicting the secondary structure of ribozymes, and antiviral drug design.