Maximum entropy models of biological data

Speaker(s)

Thierry Mora

Affiliation

Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure

Date

March 13, 2013, 10:30 a.m.

Room

room 5820

Seminar

Seminar Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

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Biology has many examples of systems of agents acting collectively in fundamentally different ways than they would individually. Maximum entropy models provide a useful tool for analysing these collective phenomena directly from data. We will review examples in neural networks, bird flocks and DNA binding site sequences.

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