Graeme Mitchison is a member of scientific staff at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. .
Recent publications:
Mitchison, G. (2005) The regional rule for bacterial base composition. Trends in Genetics , in press.
Wu, C., Agricola, E., Mitchison, G., Caserta, M., Di Mauro, E., and Travers, A. (2005) A novel type of histone octamer binding site. Abstract for the Alan Wolffe EMBO Conference on Chromatin and Epigenetics (EMBL, Heidelberg, May 19-22).
Mitchison, G. (2005) Recollections of Francis Crick. Journal of Genetics, 83, 221.
Christandl, M. and Mitchison, G. (2004) The spectra of density operators and the Kronecker coefficients of the symmetric group. Comm. Math. Phys. in press, and quant-ph/0409016.
Mitchison, G. (2004) Happy days here again? Current Biology, 14, R97.
Mitchison, G. and Jozsa, R. (2004) Towards a geometrical interpretation of quantum information compression. Phys. Rev. A 69, 032304. quant-ph/0309177.
MacKay, D.J.C., Mitchison, G. and McFadden, P.L. (2003) Sparse Graph Codes for Quantum Error-Correction. IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 50, 2315. quant-ph/0304161.
Mitchison, G, Massar, S and Pironio, S. (2002) Minimum number of photons needed to distinguish two transparencies. Phys. Rev. A 65, 022110. quant-ph/0105098.
Mitchison, G and Jozsa, R . (2001) Counterfactual computation. Proc. Roy. Soc. A 457, 1175-1193. quant-ph/9907007.
Massar, S, Mitchison, G and Pironio, S. (2001) Minimal absorption measurement. Phys. Rev. A 64, 062303. quant-ph/0102116.
Mitchison, G and Massar, S. (2001) Absorption-free discrimination between semi-transparent objects. Phys. Rev. A 63, 032105. quant-ph/0003140.
Mitchison, G and Swindale, N . (1999) Can Hebbian volume learning explain discontinuities in cortical maps? Neural Computation.11, 1519-26.
Teichmann, SA and Mitchison, G . (1999) ls there a phylogenetic signal in prokaryote proteins? J. Mol. Evol..49, 98-107.
Mitchison, G . (1999) A probabilistic treatment of phylogeny and sequence alignment. J. Mol. Evol..49, 11-22.
Teichmann, SA and Mitchison, G. (1999) Making family trees from gene families. Nature Genetics, 21, 66-67.
Durbin, R, Eddy, S, Krogh, A and Mitchison, G. (1998) Biological Sequence Analysis: probabilistic models of DNA and protein sequences. Cambridge University Press.
The following course notes are in gzip-compressed postscript.
Part III course on quantum information theory with Daniel Jonathan.