Information theory and macromolecular structure

COMP 266

Irwin D. Kuntz, kuntz@cgl.ucsf.edu, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, 600 16th St., San Francisco, CA 94143-2240 and Tiba Aynechi, Graduate Program in Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-2240.
I will explore applications of Shannon information theory to problems in macromolecular structure. Specifically, I am interested in the efficiency of structural constraints, molecular force fields and sequence alignment procedures in clustering sequence-structure spaces.