UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
             COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

                           presents

           "A New Perspective from Information Theory on
                 Properties of Genetic Sequences"


                         Dr. Omri Tal
       (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences,
                     Leipzig, Germany)


                    11 January 2017 at 11 a.m.
                  Hatfield, College Lane Campus
                       Lecture Theatre B404

                  Everyone is Welcome to Attend

                  Refreshments will be available


Abstract:

I demonstrate conceptual links between features of population genetic
samples and a core information-theoretic property. In essence, long
stretches of genetic variants may be captured as 'typical sequences'
of a *nonstationary* source modelled on the source population. I will
introduce the concepts of typical genotypes, population entropy rate and
mutual typicality, and their relation to the *asymptotic equipartition 
property*. The interplay of typical genotypes from differing populations
and their geometric properties in high dimensional space will provide
motivation for constructing simple typicality-based population assignment
schemes. The communication channel can be likened to an inferential
channel with noise resulting from fuzzy population boundaries and
allele frequency estimation limits, and with *channel capacity* 
reflecting multi-locus *informativeness*.

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