An Outline of Informational Genetics by Gerard Battail (Repost)
An Outline of Informational Genetics (Synthesis Lectures on Biomedical Engineering) by Gerard Battail
English | Oct 16, 2008 | ISBN: 1598298283 | 205 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | Oct 16, 2008 | ISBN: 1598298283 | 205 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
Heredity performs literal communication of immensely long genomes through immensely long time intervals. Genomes nevertheless incur sporadic errors referred to as mutations which have significant and often dramatic effects, after a time interval as short as a human life. How can faithfulness at a very large timescale and unfaithfulness at a very short one be conciliated? The engineering problem of literal communication has been completely solved during the second half of the XX-th century. Originating in 1948 from Claude Shannon's seminal work, information theory provided means to measure information quantities and proved that communication is possible through an unreliable channel (by means left unspecified) up to a sharp limit referred to as its capacity, beyond which communication becomes impossible.