The genomic bit budget: strategic information allocation. (IMAGE)

Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science

The genomic bit budget: strategic information allocation.

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The genomic bit budget: strategic information allocation. Pie chart illustrating a heuristic decomposition of the 32-SNP barcode’s total information capacity (~37 bits; estimated by summing per locus Shannon entropies of genotype states under approximate independence) into components associated with Ancestry Structure (~32%), Yield Potential & Pod Efficiency (~10%), and Unique Identification (~58%), using mutual information to quantify these associations. Because targets are correlated, the MI-based budget should be interpreted as a heuristic allocation rather than a strict orthogonal decomposition. Note that per locus entropy may exceed 1 bit because genotype states are multilevel (0/1/2), so total capacity can exceed the number of loci.

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