Molecular recognition as an information channel: The role of conformational changes

Proceedings - 43rd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 835-840

  Savir, Yonatan ^a   Tlusty, Tsvi ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Conformational proofreading; Molecular information channels; Molecular recognition

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; CONFORMATIONAL PROOFREADING; DECISION UNIT; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; DNA STRANDS; GAIN INSIGHT; GENERIC DESIGN PRINCIPLES; GENETIC EXCHANGE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INFORMATION CHANNELS; MOLECULAR INFORMATION CHANNELS; NOISY CHANNEL; STOCHASTICITY;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OPTIMIZATION;

CONFORMATIONS;

EID: 70349669089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CISS.2009.5054833     Document Type: Conference Paper

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