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Graeme Mitchison Publications 1969-2016

  1. Mitchison, G. J. Equivariant cohomology theory. (University of Oxford, 1969).
  2. Mitchison, G. J. & Wilcox, M. Rule governing Cell Division in Anabaena. Nature 239, 110 (1972).
  3. Wilcox, M., Mitchison, G. J. & Smith, R. J. Pattern formation in the blue-green alga, Anabaena. I. Basic mechanisms. J. Cell Sci. 12, 707–723 (1973).
  4. Wilcox, M., Mitchison, G. J. & Smith, R. J. Pattern formation in the blue-green alga Anabaena. II. Controlled proheterocyst regression. J. Cell Sci. 13, 637–649 (1973).
  5. Mitchison, G. J. & Wilcox, M. Alteration in heterocyst pattern of Anabaena produced by 7-azatryptophan. Nat. New Biol. 246, 229–233 (1973).
  6. Wilcox, M., Mitchison, G. J. & Smith, R. J. Mutants of Anabaena cylindrica altered in heterocyst spacing. Arch. Microbiol. 103, 219–223 (1975).
  7. Mitchison, G. J., Wilcox, M. & Smith, R. J. Measurement of an inhibitory zone. Science 191, 866–868 (1976).
  8. Mitchison, G. J. Phyllotaxis and the Fibonacci series. Science 196, 270–275 (1977).
  9. Mitchison, G. J. A model for vein formation in higher plants. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. (1980).
  10. Mitchison, G. J. The dynamics of auxin transport. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. (1980).
  11. Mitchison, G. J. The effect of intracellular geometry on auxin transport-II. Geotropism in shoots. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. (1981).
  12. Mitchison, G. J. The polar transport of auxin and vein patterns in plants. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. (1981).
  13. Wangermann, E. & Mitchison, G. J. The dependence of auxin transport on cell length. Plant Cell Environ. 4, 141–144 (1981).
  14. Crick, F. H. C. & Mitchison, G. J. Reciprocal Neural Pathways and Associative Networks. (Salk Institute, San Diego CA, 1982).
  15. Mitchison, G. & Crick, F. Long axons within the striate cortex: their distribution, orientation, and patterns of connection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 79, 3661–3665 (1982).
  16. Mitchison, G. Vision. New depths in stereopsis. Nature 304, 123–124 (1983).
  17. Crick, F. & Mitchison, G. The function of dream sleep. Nature 304, 111–114 (1983).
  18. Mitchison, G. J. & Westheimer, G. The perception of depth in simple figures. Vision Res. 24, 1063–1073 (1984).
  19. Mitchison, G. J. Book Review: Parallel Models of Associative Memory. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 36, 376–378 (1984).
  20. Mitchison, G. J. Does the Striate Cortex Contain a System of Oriented Axons? in Models of the Visual Cortex (eds. Rose, D. & Dobson, G. V.) 443–451 (New York: Wiley, 1985).
  21. Mitchison, G. J. & McKee, S. P. Interpolation in stereoscopic matching. Nature 315, 402–404 (1985).
  22. Mitchinson, G. The organization of sequential memory: Sparse representations and the targeting problem. in Proceedings of the Bad Homburg meeting on Brain Theory 1619, (1986).
  23. Crick, F. & Mitchison, G. REM Sleep and Neural Nets. The Journal of Mind and Behavior 7, 229–249 (1986).
  24. Mitchison, G. & Durbin, R. Optimal Numberings of an N*N Array. SIAM Journal on Algebraic Discrete Methods 7, 571–582 (1986).
  25. Mitchison, G. J. & McKee, S. P. Interpolation and the detection of fine structure in stereoscopic matching. Vision Res. 27, 295–302 (1987).
  26. Mitchison, G. J. & McKee, S. P. The resolution of ambiguous stereoscopic matches by interpolation. Vision Res. 27, 285–294 (1987).
  27. Maloney, R. K., Mitchison, G. J. & Barlow, H. B. Limit to the detection of Glass patterns in the presence of noise. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4, 2336–2341 (1987).
  28. McKee, S. P. & Mitchison, G. J. The role of retinal correspondence in stereoscopic matching. Vision Res. 28, 1001–1012 (1988).
  29. Mitchison, G. Planarity and segmentation in stereoscopic matching. Perception 17, 753–782 (1988).
  30. Mitchison, G. J. & Durbin, R. M. Bounds on the learning capacity of some multi-layer networks. Biol. Cybern. 60, 345–365 (1989).
  31. Barlow, H. B., Kaushal, T. P. & Mitchison, G. J. Finding Minimum Entropy Codes. Neural Comput. 1, 412–423 (1989).
  32. Mitchison, G. J. & McKee, S. P. Mechanisms underlying the anisotropy of stereoscopic tilt perception. Vision Res. 30, 1781–1791 (1990).
  33. Mitchison, G. J. & Westheimer, G. Viewing geometry and gradients of horizontal disparity. Vision: coding and efficiency 302–309 (1990).
  34. Mitchison, G. & Miall, C. The enigma of the cortical code. Trends Neurosci. 13, 41–43 (1990).
  35. Durbin, R. & Mitchison, G. A dimension reduction framework for understanding cortical maps. Nature 343, 644–647 (1990).
  36. Mitchison, G. Neuronal branching patterns and the economy of cortical wiring. Proc. Biol. Sci. 245, 151–158 (1991).
  37. Mitchison, G. Removing Time Variation with the Anti-Hebbian Differential Synapse. Neural Comput. 3, 312–320 (1991).
  38. Mitchison, G. & Durbin, R. Neural networks. Learning from your neighbour. Nature 355, 112–113 (1992).
  39. Mitchison, G. Axonal trees and cortical architecture. Trends Neurosci. 15, 122–126 (1992).
  40. Mitchison, G. The neural representation of stereoscopic depth contrast. Perception 22, 1415–1426 (1993).
  41. Mitchison, G. A Type of Duality between Self-Organizing Maps and Minimal Wiring. Neural Comput. 7, 25–35 (1995).
  42. Krogh, A. & Mitchison, G. Maximum entropy weighting of aligned sequences of proteins or DNA. Proc. Int. Conf. Intell. Syst. Mol. Biol. 3, 215–221 (1995).
  43. Eddy, S. R., Mitchison, G. & Durbin, R. Maximum discrimination hidden Markov models of sequence consensus. J. Comput. Biol. 2, 9–23 (1995).
  44. Crick, F. & Mitchison, G. REM sleep and neural nets. Behav. Brain Res. 69, 147–155 (1995).
  45. Mitchison, G. & Durbin, R. Tree-based maximal likelihood substitution matrices and hidden Markov models. J. Mol. Evol. 41, 1139–1151 (1995).
  46. Mitchison, G. Visual perception: Where is the mind’s eye? Curr. Biol. 6, 508–510 (1996).
  47. Mitchison, G. The sum of the parts. Curr. Biol. 7, R462–R466 (1997).
  48. Durbin, R., Eddy, S. R., Krogh, A. & Mitchison, G. Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids. (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
  49. Mitchison, G. J. Finding minimum entropy codes. Unsupervised Learning: Foundations of Neural Computation 249 (1999).
  50. Teichmann, S. A. & Mitchison, G. Making family trees from gene families. Nat. Genet. 21, 66–67 (1999).
  51. Mitchison, G. J. A probabilistic treatment of phylogeny and sequence alignment. J. Mol. Evol. 49, 11–22 (1999).
  52. Teichmann, S. A. & Mitchison, G. Is there a phylogenetic signal in prokaryote proteins? J. Mol. Evol. 49, 98–107 (1999).
  53. Mitchison, G. J. & Swindale, N. V. Can Hebbian volume learning explain discontinuities in cortical maps? Neural Comput. 11, 1519–1526 (1999).
  54. Teichmann, S. A. & Mitchison, G. Computing protein function. Nat. Biotechnol. 18, 27 (2000).
  55. Mitchison, G. & Massar, S. Absorption-free discrimination between semitransparent objects. Phys. Rev. A 63, 032105 (2001).
  56. Mitchison, G. & Jozsa, R. Counterfactual computation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 457, 1175–1193 (2001).
  57. Massar, S., Mitchison, G. & Pironio, S. Minimal absorption measurements. Phys. Rev. A 64, 062303 (2001).
  58. Mitchison, G., Massar, S. & Pironio, S. Minimum number of photons needed to distinguish two transparencies. Phys. Rev. A 65, 022110 (2002).
  59. MacKay, D. J. C., Mitchison, G. & McFadden, P. L. Sparse Graph Codes for Quantum Error-Correction. arXiv [quant-ph] (2003).
  60. Mitchison, G. Happy days here again? Curr. Biol. 14, R97 (2004).
  61. Mitchison, G. & Jozsa, R. Towards a geometrical interpretation of quantum-information compression. Phys. Rev. A 69, 032304 (2004).
  62. Mitchison, G. Francis Crick (1916–2004). J. Genet. 83, 221–221 (2004).
  63. Mitchison, G. The regional rule for bacterial base composition. Trends Genet. 21, 440–443 (2005).
  64. Christandl, M. & Mitchison, G. The Spectra of Quantum States and the Kronecker Coefficients of the Symmetric Group. Commun. Math. Phys. 261, 789–797 (2006).
  65. Mitchison, G. & Jozsa, R. The limits of counterfactual computation. arXiv [quant-ph] (2006).
  66. MacKay, D. J. C., Shokrollahi, A., Stegle, O. & Mitchison, G. More sparse-graph codes for quantum error-correction. http://www. inference. phy. cam. ac. uk/mackay/QECC. html (2007).
  67. Mitchison, G. A dual de Finetti theorem. arXiv [quant-ph] (2007).
  68. Christandl, M., Harrow, A. W. & Mitchison, G. Nonzero Kronecker Coefficients and What They Tell us about Spectra. Commun. Math. Phys. 270, 575–585 (2007).
  69. Christandl, M., König, R., Mitchison, G. & Renner, R. One-and-a-Half Quantum de Finetti Theorems. Commun. Math. Phys. 273, 473–498 (2007).
  70. Mitchison, G., Jozsa, R. & Popescu, S. Sequential weak measurement. Phys. Rev. A 76, 062105 (2007).
  71. Mitchison, G. Weak measurement takes a simple form for cumulants. Phys. Rev. A 77, 052102 (2008).
  72. König, R. & Mitchison, G. A most compendious and facile quantum de Finetti theorem. J. Math. Phys. 50, 012105 (2009).
  73. Åberg, J. & Mitchison, G. Cumulants and the moment algebra: Tools for analyzing weak measurements. J. Math. Phys. 50, 042103 (2009).
  74. Mitchison, G. Brains and minds: science in the clear. https://www.opendemocracy.net/ (2009).
  75. Mitchison, G. Imagining a universe for Ian McEwan. New Sci. 31, (2010).
  76. Mitchison, G. The log of a quantum state and qubit local unitary invariants. (cds.cern.ch, 2010).
  77. Mitchison, G. The hierarchical structure of local unitary invariants. arXiv [quant-ph] (2010).
  78. Jozsa, R. & Mitchison, G. Entropy, subentropy and the elementary symmetric functions. arXiv [quant-ph] (2013).
  79. Mitchison, G. The shape of an auxin pulse, and what it tells us about the transport mechanism. PLoS Comput. Biol. 11, e1004487 (2015).
  80. Montanaro, A., Jozsa, R. & Mitchison, G. On Exact Quantum Query Complexity. Algorithmica 71, 775–796 (2015).
  81. Jozsa, R. & Mitchison, G. Symmetric polynomials in information theory: Entropy and subentropy. J. Math. Phys. 56, 062201 (2015).
  82. Mitchison, G. Conformal growth of Arabidopsis leaves. J. Theor. Biol. 408, 155–166 (2016).
  83. Mitchison, G. Reminiscences of David Mackay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCGPM5As9kE