| The Brunn-Minkowski theory (1993) | |||||||||||||||||
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| This primer is written for molecular biologists who are unfamiliar with information theory. Its purpose is to introduce you to these ideas so that you can understand how to apply them to binding sites [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. Most of the material in this primer can also be found in introductory texts on information theory. Although Shannon's original paper on the theory of information [10] is sometimes dicult to read, at other points it is straight forward. Skip the hard parts, and you will nd it enjoyable. Pierce later published a popular book [11] which is a great introduction to information theory. Other introductions are listed in reference [1]. A workbook that you may nd useful is reference [12]. Shannon's complete collected works have been published [13]. Information about ordering this book is given in | |||||||||||||||||
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