Over the span of the coming week, I’ll be updating (and archiving) the stream of information coming out of the BIRS Workshop on Biological and Bio-Inspired Information Theory.
Editor’s note: On 12/12/17 Storify announced they would be shutting down. As a result, I’m changing the embedded version of the original data served by Storify for an HTML copy which can be found below:
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BIRS: Biological and Bio-Inspired Information Theory
A 5 Day workshop on Biology and Information Theory hosted by the Banff International Research Station
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I know where I’ll be in Oct 2014! Let’s hear it for Biology & Information Theory! https://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170 … #ITBio #Banff @andreweckford -
. @andreweckford You might be interested in this grouping of research papers: http://www.mendeley.com/groups/2545131/itbio/ … #ITBio #Banff
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Wishing I was at the Gene Regulation and Information Theory meeting starting tomorrow http://bit.ly/XnHRZs #ITBio
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#ITBio: @andreweckford has a new book on Molecular Communication available Oct 31. http://bit.ly/15uEUzF
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Mathematical and Statistical Models for Genetic Coding starts today. http://www.am.hs-mannheim.de/genetic_code_2013.php?id=1 … @andreweckford might borrow attendees for BIRS
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John Baez has announced a workshop on Entropy & Information in Biological Systems http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/entropy-and-information-in-biological-systems/ … #NIMBioS #ITBio @andreweckford
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Mathematical Foundations for Information Theory in Diffusion-Based Molecular Communications http://bit.ly/1aTVR2c #ITBio
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Bill Bialek giving plenary talk “Information flow & order in real biological networks” at Feb 2014 workshop http://mnd.ly/19LQH8f #ITBio
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Workshop on Information Theoretic Incentives for Artificial Life http://jhu.md/1lM8tAn #ITBio #ALife14 @alifeofficial @14thALIFE @cxdig
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Researchers working in information theory & biology http://jhu.md/1gieQGR #ITBio @andreweckford @ChristophAdami @wbialek @johnhawks
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CECAM Workshop: “Entropy in Biomolecular Systems” starts May 14 in Vienna. http://jhu.md/1faLR8t #ITBio pic.twitter.com/Ty8dEIXQUT -
Currently organizing my Banff workshop on bio-information theory … https://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170 … -
Last RT: wonder what the weather is going to be like at the end of October for my @BIRS_Math workshop
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@JoVanEvery I’m organizing a workshop in Banff in October … hopefully this isn’t a sign of weather to come!
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Special issue of Entropy: “Information Theoretic Incentives for Cognitive Systems” http://boffosocko.com/2014/09/19/special-issue-of-entropy-information-theoretic-incentives-for-cognitive-systems/ … #ITBio #CallForSubmissions
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How information theory could hold the key to quantifying nature. http://wrd.cm/1uy1xdX by @vero_greenwood pic.twitter.com/ek5DUb2Ul9 -
Next week @BIRS_Math: Biological and Bio-Inspired Information Theory http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170 … | Live @ http://www.birs.ca/live #bioinformatics -
Good morning from beautiful Banff. How can you not love the mountains? pic.twitter.com/mxYBNz7yzl -
Andrew Eckford (York University), The Landscape http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410270858-Eckford.mp4 …
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“Not an obvious connection between utility and information, just as there is no obvious connection between energy and entropy” @BIRS_Math
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Peter Thomas (Case Western Reserve University), Signal Transduction and Information Theory http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410270940-Thomas.mp4 …
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Following @andreweckford @BIRS_Math 4 updates/video from Biological & Bio-Inspired Information Theory https://storify.com/ChrisAldrich/biological-and-bio-inspired-information-theory … @cxdig #ITBio
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There’s a good-lookin’ group! @BIRS_Math http://www.birs.ca/workshops/2014/14w5170/groupphoto.jpg … -
Live now: Nicolo Michelusi of @USCViterbi on Stochastic Model for Electron Transfer in Bacterial Cables http://www.birs.ca/live #ITBio
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Nicolo Michelusi (University of Southern California), A Stochastic Model for Electron Transfer in Bacterial Cables http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410271450-Michelusi.mp4 …
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“Timing is fundamental … subsumes time-varying concentration channel” @cnmirose @BIRS_Math
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Chris Rose (Rutgers University), Molecular Communication Channels: timing vs. payload http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410271538-Rose.mp4 …
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Standard opening quote of these talks: “I’m not a biologist, but …” @BIRS_Math
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Stefan Moser (ETH Zurich), Capacity Bounds of the Memoryless AIGN Channel – a Toy-Model for Molecular Communicat… http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410271610-Moser.mp4 …
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Biodiversity, Entropy and Thermodynamics
I’m giving a short 30-minute talk at a workshop on Biological and Bio-Inspired Information Theory at the Banff International Research Institute. I’ll say more about the workshop later, but here’s my talk: * Biodiversity, entropy and thermodynamics. Most of the people at this workshop study neurobiology and cell signalling, not evolutionary game theory or… -
Weisi Guo (University of Warwick), Communication Envelopes for Molecular Diffusion and Electromagnetic Wave Propag… http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410271643-Guo.mp4 …
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.@Storify stream coming out of @BIRS_Math: Biological & Bio-Inspired Information Theory this week: http://boffosocko.com/2014/10/27/birs-workshop-on-biological-and-bio-inspired-information-theory-storify-stream/ …
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Terrific introduction of Canada/Banff by Andrew Eckford (York)The Landscape http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410270858-Eckford.mp4 …” -
@andreweckford “The Landscape” to become a permanent resource for @BIRS_Math participants http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410270858-Eckford.mp4 …”
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Banff sunset pic.twitter.com/fw04PkAGED -
Biological and Bio-Inspired Information Theory workshop videos! http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos … @BIRS_Math -
.@ChrisAldrich @andreweckford @Storify @BIRS_Math Sounds like a fascinating workshop on bioinformation theory in Banff. -
Mathematical Modeling of Biological Processes (by Avner Friedman & Chiu-Yen Kao) http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Modeling-Biological-Processes-Modelling/dp/3319083139/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=compldiges-20&linkCode=w01&linkId=3H5F3QNHI6IDWAFQ&creativeASIN=3319083139 … -
Toby Berger, winner of the 2002 Shannon award, speaking right now. @BIRS_Math
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Naftali Tishby (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Sensing and acting under information constraints – a principled a… http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410281032-Tishby.mp4 …
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“…places such as BIRS and the Banff Centre exist to facilitate the exchange and pursuit of knowledge.” S. Sundaram http://www.birs.ca/testimonials/#testimonial-1454 …
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We’re going for a hike tomorrow. Many thanks to Lukas at the @ParksCanada info centre in Banff for helpful advice! @BIRS_Math
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Behnaam Aazhang (Rice University), Real-Time Network Modulation for Intractable Epilepsy http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410281337-Aazhang.mp4 …
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Alexander Dimitrov (Washington State University), Invariant signal processing in auditory biological systems http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410281416-Dimitrov.mp4 …
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Joel Zylberberg (University of Washington), Communicating with noisy signals: lessons learned from the mammalian v… http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410281450-Zylberberg.mp4 …
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Robert Schober (Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg), Intersymbol interference mitigation in diffusive molecular communi… http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410281549-Schober.mp4 …
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Rudolf Rabenstein (Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU)), Modelling Molecular Communication Cha… http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410281627-Rabenstein.mp4 …
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Math at the pub. (MacLab Bistro) @BIRS_Math pic.twitter.com/LRe4sVcaDw -
THis week @BIRS_Math ” Biological and Bio-Inspired Information Theory ” @thebanffcentre #biology #math @NSF -
“Your theory might match the data, but the data might be wrong” – Crick @BIRS_Math
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So information theory seems to be a big deal in ecology. @BIRS_Math
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Tom Schneider (National Institutes of Health), Three Principles of Biological States: Ecology and Cancer http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410290904-Schneider.mp4 …
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“In biodiversity, the entropy of an ecosystem is the expected … information we gain about an organism by learning its species” @BIRS_Math
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Seriously, I’m blown away by this work in information theory in ecology. Huge body of work; I had no idea. @BIRS_Math
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.@andreweckford @BIRS_Math Harte’s book Maximum Entropy & Ecology is excellent in this area http://amzn.to/1DwIl3V pic.twitter.com/EIBDpM35uf -
.@andreweckford @QuantaMagazine had a nice overview of some of John Harte’s work in September http://bit.ly/1DwIWCD @BIRS_Math
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Chan-Byoung Chae (Yonsei University), Molecular MIMO: From Theory to Practice http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410281705-Chae.mp4 …
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John Baez (University of California, Riverside), Biodiversity, entropy and thermodynamics http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410291038-Baez.mp4 …
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I encourage @BIRS_Math attendees at Biological & Bio-Inspired Information Theory to contribute references here: http://bit.ly/1jQwObk
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Christoph Adami (Michigan State University), Some Information-Theoretic Musings Concerning the Origin and Evolutio… http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410291114-Adami.mp4 …
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Twitter Lists for @BIRS_Math workshop #Biology #InformationTheory:
#ITBIO: http://bit.ly/1yIfzfJ
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.@ChristophAdami talk Some Information-Theoretic Musings Concerning the Origin of Life @BIRS_Math this morning #ITBio pic.twitter.com/VA8komuuSW -
ICYMI @ChristophAdami had great paper: Information-theoretic Considerations on Origin of Life on arXiv http://bit.ly/1yIhK2Q @BIRS_Math
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Johnston Canyon selfie @BIRS_Math pic.twitter.com/MEKeY5To5s -
Baez has a post on Tishby’s talk “Sensing & Acting Under Information Constraints” http://bit.ly/1yIDonR @BIRS_Math pic.twitter.com/dFuiVLFSGC -
Sensing and Acting Under Information Constraints
I’m having a great time at a workshop on Biological and Bio-Inspired Information Theory in Banff, Canada. You can see videos of the talks online. There have been lots of good talks so far, but this one really blew my mind: * Naftali Tishby, Sensing and acting under information constraints—a principled approach to biology and… -
I’m listening to a talk on the origin of life at a workshop on Biological and Bio-Inspired Information Theory. … https://plus.google.com/117562920675666983007/posts/gqFL7XY3quF … -
Ilya Nemenman @EmoryUniversity on Predictive information http://bit.ly/1titfOw
Follow his research: http://bit.ly/1tithFW @BIRS_Math -
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Inkpots selfie from yesterday’s hike. @BIRS_Math pic.twitter.com/0A6ZQsQVwE -
Inkpots group selfie. @BIRS_Math pic.twitter.com/O5vXDjtA3u -
On the way home from Inkpots. @BIRS_Math pic.twitter.com/1XhO8mLOkq -
Ilya Nemenman (Emory University), Predictive information http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410300907-Nemenman.mp4 …
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Toby Berger (University of Virginia), Neruoscience Applications of GIG Distributions http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410280914-Berger.mp4 …
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Daniel Polani (University of Hertfordshire), Informational Principles in Perception-Action Loops http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410301038-Polani.mp4 …
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Fascinating stuff! #Information Theory #Entropy #Thermodynamics #Chemistry #Physics & lastly #Life itself: https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/information-theory-and-the-origin-of-life-4cf6b93d156c … -
Didn’t get enough information theory & biology this week @BIRS_Math? Apply for NIMBioS workshop in April 2015 http://bit.ly/1yIeiWe #ITBio
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Amin Emad (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Applications of Discrete Mathematics in Bioinformatics http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410301329-Emad.mp4 …
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Paul Bogdan (University of Southern California), Multiscale Analysis Reveals Complex Behavior in Bacteria Populati… http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410301401-Bogdan.mp4 …
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Robert Shaw (ProtoLife Inc.), Information and Causality in a Reaction-Diffusion System http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410301434-Shaw.mp4 …
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Lubomir Kostal (Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), Efficient information transmi… http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410301534-Kostal.mp4 …
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Nima Soltani (Stanford University), Applications of Directed Information to Neuroscience http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170/videos/watch/201410301647-Soltani.mp4 …
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@lrvarshney I shoulda invited you to this BIRS workshop …
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@conservativelez I’m a big fan of your dad’s research & was reminded of much of it via a workshop on Biological Information Theory
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@conservativelez Though he may not have been able to attend, he can catch most of the talks online if he’d like https://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170 …
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Depressed that @BIRS_Math Workshop on Biological & Bio-Inspired Information Theory is over? Relive it here: http://bit.ly/1rF3G4B #ITBio
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Kudos @andreweckford, Toby Berger, Peter Thomas, @NGhoussoub, @BIRS_Math & friends on a fantastic workshop! http://bit.ly/1ckttZq
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This @BIRS_Math Workshop was biggest thing in #informationtheory & #biology since the Gatlinburg Symposium in 1956. http://bit.ly/1rF4RRr
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1/ Everyone I talked to said it was the best workshop they’d ever been to, and they’d like to do a follow-up workshop @BIRS_Math
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2/ There is an amazing diversity of work under the umbrella of “information theory”. @BIRS_Math
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3/ Much of this work is outside the IT mainstream, and an issue is that people use different terms for related concepts. @BIRS_Math
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4/ Some community building is in order. I think this workshop was a good first step. @BIRS_Math
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5/ Many many thanks to @BIRS_Math and huge kudos to @NGhoussoub for excellent service to the Canadian scientific community. BIRS is a gem.
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6/ Also many thanks to the participants for their excellent talks, and to @ChrisAldrich for maintaining a Storify.
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@andreweckford Perhaps we could consider tying in our friends from @sfiscience? @MelMitchell1 https://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5170 … @BIRS_Math #complexity
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Entropy and Information in Biological Systems (Part 1)
John Harte is an ecologist who uses maximum entropy methods to predict the distribution, abundance and energy usage of species. Marc Harper uses information theory in bioinformatics and evolutionary game theory. Harper, Harte and I are organizing a workshop on entropy and information in biological systems, and I’m really excited about it! -
Entropy and Information in Biological Systems (Part 2)
John Harte, Marc Harper and I are running a workshop! Now you can apply here to attend: * Information and entropy in biological systems, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, Knoxville Tennesee, Wednesday-Friday, 8-10 April 2015. Click the link, read the stuff and scroll down to “CLICK HERE” to apply.
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Bio-Inspired Information Theory
There will be a 5-day workshop on Biological and Bio-Inspired Information Theory at BIRS from Sunday the 26th to Friday the 31st of October, 2014. It’s being organized by * Toby Berger (University of Virginia) * Andrew Eckford (York University) * Peter Thomas (Case Western Reserve University) BIRS is the Banff International Research Station,… -
Andrew Eckford: The Blog
How does it feel to (co-)write a book and hold the finished product in your hands? About like this: Many, many thanks to my excellent co-authors, Tadashi Nakano and Tokuko Haraguchi, for their hard work; thanks to Cambridge for accepting this project and managing it well; and thanks to Satoshi Hiyama for writing a nice blurb. -
Andrew Eckford: The BlogYou may have seen our PLOS ONE paper about tabletop molecular communication, which received loads of media coverage. One of the goals of this paper was to show that anyone can do experiments in molecular communication, without any wet labs or expensive apparatus.
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Meeting: Gene Regulation and Information Theoryhttp://www.uni-ulm.de/~sschober/fachgruppe/Meeting2013/Meeting2013.shtml
