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Information may be stored in the architecture of the receptor, in its binding sites, and in the ligand layer surrounding the bound substrate such as specified in Table 1. It is read out at the rate of formation and dissociation of the receptor—substrate complex (14). The success of this approach to molecular recognition ties in estabUshing a precise complementarity between the associating partners, ie, optimal information content of a receptor with respect to a given substrate. 

Effective Measure Complexity A convenient measure of the complexity of a given site-value sequence (as opposed to simple measures of information content), is provided by the so-called effective measure complexity, T, first used by Grassberger [grass86c] for isolating certain very long range correlations appearing in the spatial pattern of elementary rule R22 (see section 3.1.4.1). 

Although anosmias to these compounds occur at similar levels, some communicative value may arise from the persistence of signal emissions which are not enantiomerically pure (Carman, 1993 Wysocki et al., 1999). In secreted mixtures, the alternate versions of such compounds are produced in a constant ratio since they have identical volatility and hence provide stable informational content to the receiver. Support for this idea comes from the results of the NMR mapping of the BT binding site within the MUP1 carrier (Zidek et al., 1999). Here the protein-ligand complex does exist in the expected ratio, and for both enantiomers, although the orientation of the bound thiazole was interpreted as opposite to that indicated by previous X-ray analyses. 

Simple evidence about the information content of the dynamic properties can be obtained by considering the Langmuir model of adsorption of molecules from gas phase to a limited number of interacting sites on a sensor surface [3]. 

Chemical systems may store information either in an analog fashion, in the structural features (size, shape, nature and disposition of interaction sites, etc. [1.27]) of a molecule or a supermolecule, or in a digital fashion, in the various states or connectivities of a chemical entity. Information theory has been applied to the description of the features of molecular machines [10.2]. The evaluation of the information content of a recognition process based on structural sensing in receptor-substrate pairs... 

What kind of balance is going to be taken into consideration between the information content of on-site and remote sensing and the cost of these types of observations ... 

In this chapter, we have developed the information content of different excited state spectroscopic methods in terms of ligand field theory and the covalency of L—M bonds. Combined with the ground-state methods presented in the following chapters, spectroscopy and magnetism experimentally define the electronic structure of transition metal sites. Calculations supported by these data can provide fundamental insight into the physical properties of inorganic materials and their reactivities in catalysis and electron transfer. The contribution of electronic structure to function has been developed in Ref. 61. 

The Shannon information content (in thermodynamics, the entropy) can be calculated from the probability distribution of allowed amino acids substitutions (Fontana and Shuster, 1987 Saven and Wolynes, 1997 Dewey and Donne, 1998). Counting the number of sequences at a given fitness is mathematically isomorphic to calculating the entropy at a given fitness, S(F) = In fl, where the number of states (l is the number of sequences at fitness F. The entropy. v, for a given site i can also be calculated from Eq. (25)... 

If /is large, then the amino acid found at that position is highly conserved. Conversely, a low / indicates that many amino acids are allowed at that site. This information content is directly related to the Shannon entropy through a Boltzman weighting of the fitness changes w,(a) to calculate the probability that a residue is in amino acid state pi a). 

Finally, this effort is not meant to replace those technical studies which have dealt with the analysis and prioritization of known hazardous waste sites where a great deal of specific information is available on site history, contents, and hydrogeology. The present study should reduce the need for expensive drilling and testing programs and provide a means for their rational. implementation. 

Pedersen and Engelbrecht (1995) devised a neural network to analyze E. coli promoters. They predicted the transcriptional start point, measured the information content, and identified new features signals correlated with the start site. They accomplished these tasks by using two different encoding schemes, one with windows of 1 to 51 nucleotides, the other with a 65-nucleotide window containing a 7-nucleotide hole. An interesting idea in the study was to measure the relative information content of the input data by using the ability of the neural network to learn correctly, as evaluated by the maximum test correlation coefficient. 

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