School of Computer Science and Engineering - The Machine Learning Lab

Selected Publications in Biological Computation and "BioInformatics"

All papers are pdf or PostScript files compressed with Gzip

Information and fitness

Samuel F. Taylor, Naftali Tishby and William Bialek
Submitted, Dec 2007.

Efficient representation as a design principle for neural coding and computation

William Bialek, Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck, and Naftali Tishby
Submitted, Dec. 2007.

Nearest Neighbor Based Feature Selection for Regression and its Application to Neural Activity

Amir Navot, Lavi Shpigelman, Naftali Tishby and Eilon Vaadia
Prepared: June 2005. In Advances of Neural Information Processing (NIPS-18) 2005 8 pages.

Stochastic computing with biomolecular automata

Rivka Adar, Yaakov Benenson, Gregory Linshiz, Amit Rosner, Naftali Tishby, and Ehud Shapiro
Prepared: January 2004. Appeared: PNAS, July 2004. 6 pages (pdf).

Analyzing neural codes using the information bottleneck method

Elad Schneidman, Noam Slonim, Naftali Tishby,
Rob R. deRuyter van Steveninck, William Bialek
Prepared: June 2001. NIPS-2001. 7 pages.

Group Redundancy Measures Reveals Redundancy Reduction in the Auditory Pathway

Gal Chechik, Amir Globerson, Naftali Tishby,
M.J. Anderson, Eric D. Young, Israel Nelken
Prepared: June 2001. NIPS-2001. 7 pages.

Distributional clustering of movements based on neural responses

Amir Globerson, Gal Chechik, Naftali Tishby,
Orna Steinberg, Eilon Vaadia
Prepared: June 2001. Submitted to NIPS-2001. 7 pages.

Locating Transcription Factors Binding Sites using a Variable Memory Markov Model

Yonatan Bilu, Michal Linial, Noam Slonim, and Naftali Tishby
Prepared: February 2001. Submitted to ISMB. 12 pages.

Extraction of Protein Domains and Signatures through Unsupervised Statistical Sequence Segmentation

Gill Bejerano, Yevgeny Seldon, Hanah Margalit, and Naftali Tishby
Prepared: February 2001. Submitted to ISMB. 12 pages.

Spotting Neural Spike Patterns using an Adversary Background Model

Itay Gat and Naftali Tishby
Prepared: (final version) May 2000. To appear in Neural Computation. 44 pages.

Temporal Dependent Plasticity: An Information Theoretic Approach

Gal Chechik and Naftali Tishby
Prepared: May 2000. To appear in NIPS-2000. 7 pages.

Universality and individuality in a neural code

Elad Schneidman, Naama Brenner, Naftali Tishby, Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck, and William Bialek
Prepared: May 2000. To appear in NIPS-2000. 7 pages.

Information Capacity and Robustness of Stochastic Neuron Models

Elad Schneidman, Idan Segev, and Naftali Tishby
Prepared: Jan 2000. in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 12
MIT Press (2000).

Ion channel stochasticity may be critical in determining the reliability and precision of spike timing

Elad Schneidman, Barry Freedman, and Idan Segev
Neural Computation, vol. 10 p. 1679-1704 (1998)

Modeling protein families using probabilistic suffix trees

Gill Bejerano and Golan Yona
Prepared: October 1998
In Proceedings of RECOMB'99
15 pages, 2,198,981 (425,847) bytes.

Global Self Organization of All Known Protein Sequences Reveals Inherent Biological Signatures

Michal Linial, Nathan Linial, Naftali Tishby and Golan Yona
Prepared: October 1996
Submitted to "JMB"
34 pages, 1,057,692 bytes.

Dynamical Encoding of Cursive Handwriting

Yoram Singer and Naftali Tishby
Appeared in Biological Cybernetics (1993). 11 pages 618,496 bytes.

Hearing Beyond The Spectrum

Shlomo Dubnov, Naftali Tishby, Dalia Cohen
Prepared: January 1995, Appeared: Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 25 (1996), 23 pages 1810659 bytes.

Bispectrum of Musical Sounds: an Auditory Perspective

Shlomo Dubnov, Naftali Tishby, Dalia Cohen
Prepared: September 1993. Appeared: Proceedings of the X Colloquium on Musical Informatics, Milano, 1993. 4 pages 320779 bytes.

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