<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><b class="">IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications</b></span></div><p class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">is proud to announce that our </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; 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-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(43, 170, 223);"><b class="">IEEE Xplore</b></span></a>. </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Within the issue, you'll find the following 8 papers:</span></div><ul class=""><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Mechanisms of information filtering in neural systems (Invited Paper; Linder) </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Noise Filtering and Prediction in Biological Signaling Networks (Invited Paper; Hathcock, Sheehy, Weisenberger, Ilker, and Hinczewski)</span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">The Use of Rate Distortion Theory to Evaluate Biological Signaling Pathways (Invited Paper; Iglesias)</span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics of Complex Systems, III: Noneqilibrium Thermodynamics of Self-Replication Kinetics (Saakian and Qian)</span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Inferring Biological Networks by Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (Mangan, Brunton, Proctor and Kutz)</span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Info-Clustering: A Mathematical Theory for Data Clustering (Chan, Al-Bashabsheh, Kaced, Zhou and Liu)</span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Fundamental Bounds for Sequence Reconstruction from Nanopore Sequencers (Magner, Duda, Szpankowski and Grama)</span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </span></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Inference of Causal Information Flow in Collective Animal Behavior (Lord, Sun, Ouellette and Bollt)</span></li></ul><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><b class="">Special Issue Guest Editors</b></span></div><p class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Prof. Alexander G. Dimitrov </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Department of Mathematics and Statistics </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington, USA </span></div><p class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Prof. Faramarz Fekri</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA</span></div><p class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Prof. Aurel A. Lazar</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Department of Electrical Engineering</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Columbia University, New York, New York, USA</span></div><p class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Prof. Stefan M. Moser</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Signal and Information Processing Lab (ISI)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan</span></div><p class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Prof. Peter J. Thomas*</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Department of Biology</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA</span></div><p class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </span></p><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">*corresponding guest editor</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class=""><span class="" style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class=""><span class="" style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">The Special Issue on Biological Applications of Information Theory in Honor of Claude Shannon’s Centennial—Part 2 is forthcoming. </span></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Aurel</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu" class="">http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu</a></span></div></div><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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