Subject: Re: Reading list

From: [email-masked] (Tom Schneider)
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1993 19:52:24 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (California Native
otherwise known as Brian Tingle) writes:

|      If you were asked to teach an undergraduate class on the
| subject of infomation theory in general, and it's applications in
| biology, what would you include in the reading list?

For applications in molecular biology, see the list in the anonymous ftp
archive in pub/delila.  The file is "bionet.info-theory.faq".  There would also
be (perhaps) Gatlin's book, and some papers by Konopka.  There are also papers
refered to by these papers.  For information theory in general, I still think
that the best book is Pierce1980.  For the people really into it, get the
Collected Papers of Shannon.  (References in the faq.)

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  [email-masked]