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... Schneider¹

Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, U.S.A.

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...1²

Present address: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, P. O. Box B, Frederick, MD 21702-1201. fax: (301) 846-5598, email: toms@alum.mit.edu http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov//

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... Ehrenfeuch³

Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, U.S.A.

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... 415-431⁴

©1986 Academic Press Inc. (London) Ltd. Permission was requested to post this paper on the web. The paper is at http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov//paper/schneider1986

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... recognizer⁵

We use the term ``recognizer'' to mean a macromolecule which locates specific sites on nucleic acids. These include repressors, activators, polymerases and ribosomes.

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... ⁶

I inserted this section at the insistance of my colleagues. I never thought that was correct. The main reason is that the units are no longer bits since the maximum value for selection amongst 4 objects may be arbitrarily larger than 2 by this measure, but clearly only 2 bits are required. For further discussion see references [1,2,3] -- TDS.

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... ⁷

I inserted this section at the insistance of my colleagues. I never thought that was correct. The main reason is that the units are no longer bits since the maximum value for selection amongst 4 objects may be arbitrarily larger than 2 by this measure, but clearly only 2 bits are required. For further discussion see references [1,2,3] -- TDS.

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... ⁸

I inserted this section at the insistance of my colleagues. I never thought that was correct. The main reason is that the units are no longer bits since the maximum value for selection amongst 4 objects may be arbitrarily larger than 2 by this measure, but clearly only 2 bits are required. For further discussion see references [1,2,3] -- TDS.

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... table⁹

The table is the output of the program CalHnb.
http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov//delila/calhnb.html

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