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CHAPTER Micron-sized systems: In carbo vs. in silico CHAPTER OUTLINE 6 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 154 Information: A quantitative treatment.................................................................................................... 154 An intuitive introduction to information theory .........................................................................155 Units of information ..............................................................................................................156 Thermodynamic units ............................................................................................................... 158 Optimum base for computation ..............................................................................................158 General case: Non-uniform probability of occurrence of information events ................................160 Information content of material systems..................................................................................162 Information content of a living cell .........................................................................................162