Do Entropic Approaches Improve Understanding of Biology?

Dear Colleagues,

Biology and medicine, from molecules to landscapes, are ideally suited to entropy or information approaches, because biological systems are highly variable, with stochastic processes of Innovation, Transmission, Adaptation and Movement.  We are now seeing many papers being published for all biological levels from biomolecules to landscapes. However,  these papers often do not assess whether the entropic approach actually gives a better performance than other forecasts or measures.  Therefore this Topical Issue of ‘Entropy’ encourages the submission of manuscripts that do such comparisons, using either or both simulations and biological data.

We encourage authors to make their contribution accessible to a wide range of science graduates, without compromising scientific content or flow, for example via a table of symbols and jargon, containing definitions understandable to most science graduates. We also encourage the addition of a supplementary short (e.g., three-minute) video, which explains in plain language the general significance of the major finding(s).

Prof. William B. Sherwin
Prof. Dr. Robert Niven
Guest Editors

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