Information Bottleneck in Molecular Sensing
Marianne Bauer, William Bialek
Abstract
Molecular interactions at low concentrations transmit information with low capacity; this study explores how universal features of this bottleneck influence the representation of positional information by the gap genes in the fly embryo.
Topics & Concepts
BottleneckInformation bottleneck methodRepresentation (politics)On the flyComputer scienceComputational biologyBiologyArtificial intelligenceMutual informationEmbedded systemPolitical sciencePoliticsLawOperating systemGene Regulatory Network Analysisbioluminescence and chemiluminescence researchRNA and protein synthesis mechanisms