Special Issue "Information Theory in Computational Biology"
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Theory, Probability and Statistics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 20334
Special Issue Editors
Interests: information networks; complex networks; information science; machine learning; computational biology
Interests: computational biology; bioinformatics; network science; information science; complexity; meta-analysis of science; communication
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Starting with Claude Shannon’s foundational work in 1948, the field of Information Theory, key to statistical learning and inference, has shaped a wide range of scientific disciplines. Concepts including self-information, entropy, and mutual information have guided the progress of research ranging from physics to the biological sciences. In recent decades, Information Theory has contributed to significant advances in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics across a broad range of topics.
We are pleased to invite submissions to this Special Issue of Entropy, with the theme “Information Theory in Computational Biology”. Submissions can include, but are not limited to, the following research areas: sequencing, sequence comparison, and error correction; gene expression and transcriptomics; biological networks; omics analyses; genome-wide disease-gene association mapping; and protein sequence, structure, and interaction analysis.
Topics that are particularly welcome include analyses, and/or development of application tools, involving single-cell data; multi-omics integration; biological networks; human health; high-dimensional statistical theory for biological applications; unifying definitions and interpretations of statistical interactions; adaptation of existing information theoretic test statistics and estimators for cases involving missing, erroneous, or heterogeneous data; analyses when distributions of the test statistics under the null and the alternative hypotheses are unknown; biologically inspired information storage; and efficient analysis of very large datasets.
Submitted manuscripts should present original work, and may describe novel algorithms, methods, metrics, applications, tools, platforms, and other resources that apply Information Theory principles to advance the field of Computational Biology. We encourage the rigorous comparison of original work with existing methods. We also welcome survey papers, as well as essays reflecting on theory, controversies, and/or the state of current research involving the application of Information Theory concepts to Computational Biology, and providing informed recommendations to advance this research. (Please limit commentary/perspective articles to 3,000 words.)
Thanks for considering this publication opportunity. We look forward to your submission!
Requests for extensions to the stated manuscript submission deadline will be considered.
Sincerely,
Dr. Alon Bartal
Dr. Kathleen M. Jagodnik
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Entropy is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- bioinformatics
- biological networks
- computational biology
- gene expression and transcriptomics
- heterogeneous data
- human health
- information theory
- machine learning
- omics
- systems biology