Frontier Research Base for Global Young Researchers, Frontier Research Center, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
IEEE Trans Nanobioscience. 2010 Sep;9(3):213-21. doi: 10.1109/TNB.2010.2050070. Epub 2010 Jun 3.
In this paper, we consider a molecular relay channel in which signal molecules are transmitted by a sender of communication, propagated, amplified, removed in the channel, and sensed by the receiver of communication that decodes the signal molecules. To understand and characterize the communication capacity of the molecular relay channel, we develop an information communication model that consists of the transmitter, channel, and receiver. Mutual information is used to quantify the amount of information that is transfered from the transmitter through the channel to the receiver. The method employed and results presented in this paper may help elucidate design principles of biological systems as well as help in the design and engineering of synthetic biological systems from the perspective of information theory.
在本文中，我们考虑了一种分子中继信道，其中信号分子由通信发送者传输，在信道中传播、放大、去除，并由通信接收者解码信号分子。为了理解和表征分子中继信道的通信容量，我们开发了一个由发射器、信道和接收器组成的信息通信模型。互信息用于量化从发射器通过信道传输到接收器的信息量。本文中采用的方法和呈现的结果可能有助于阐明生物系统的设计原则，并从信息论的角度帮助设计和工程合成生物系统。
