... Wedel <dougwedel@earthlink.net> wrote: Using Claude Shannon's formulas for measuring the redundancy of symbol...may also have characteristic redundancy levels in their genome, and I was wondering if anyone knows of...have been used for years to represent DNA/protein sequence in terms of Shannon Entropy. http://www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/ -- -S A wise man, therefore, proportions...

Using Claude Shannon's formulas for measuring the redundancy of symbol tokens in message strings , and given a large enough text to work with, it is possible to ... use. It strikes me as possible that different organisms (or species or genuses) may also have characteristic redundancy levels in their genome, and I was wondering if anyone knows of statistical studies of this kind.

... processing as a measure of complexity. "No question about it," he told me. "There's...how can an individual bacterium, locked into the genome it has inherited, cope with environmental fluctuation?"... And dividing by Boltzmann's concept, its entropy is on the order of Avogadro's ... can be represented in a Turing machine, Shannon system or semantic context. Causality requires some ...