DEADLINE EXTENDED to June 1 – Special Issue On Biological Applications Of Information Theory – Claude Shannon’s Centennial

Happy Birthday, Claude Shannon!
 
April 30, 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Claude Shannon, the originator of information theory.  To honor this occasion the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multiscale Communications (T-MBMC) is soliciting submissions for a special issue on Biological Applications of Information Theory.  We are happy to announce an extension of the submission deadline to June 1, 2016.  
 
Submission Instructions
 
Submissions will be collected via Manuscript Central, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tmbmc/ .
 
In your cover letter, state: “This paper is a submission for the Shannon Centennial special issue”.  For further information, please contact the corresponding guest editor, Prof. Peter Thomas (pjthomas__at__case.edu).
 
Special Issue Guest Editors
 
Prof. Alexander G. Dimitrov                                        
Department of Mathematics and Statistics                                             
Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience
Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington, USA               
 
Prof. Faramarz Fekri
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
 
Prof. Aurel Lazar
Department of Electrical Engineering
Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
 
Prof. Stefan M. Moser
Signal and Information Processing Lab (ISI)
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan
 
Prof. Peter J. Thomas*
Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Biology
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA