Progress in and Opportunities for Applying Information Theory to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Alon Bartal; Kathleen M Jagodnik

doi:10.3390/e24070925

Progress in and Opportunities for Applying Information Theory to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Entropy (Basel). 2022 Jul 3;24(7):925. doi: 10.3390/e24070925.

Authors

Alon Bartal¹, Kathleen M Jagodnik¹

Affiliation

¹ The School of Business Administration, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel.

Abstract

This editorial is intended to provide a brief history of the application of Information Theory to the fields of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; to succinctly summarize the current state of associated research, and open challenges; and to describe the scope of the invited content for this Special Issue of the journal Entropy with the theme of "Information Theory in Computational Biology" [...].

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.