Fast Entropic Profiler: An Information Theoretic Approach for the Discovery o…

Information theory has been used for quite some time in the area of computational biology. In this paper we present a pattern discovery method, named Fast Entropic Profiler, that is based on a local entropy function that captures the importance of a region with respect to the whole genome. The local entropy function has been introduced by Vinga and Almeida in [29], here we discuss and improve t…