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RE: Fun with Markov chains: Generating synthetic text!
I remember when I used Markov Hidden Models while I was studying the Master of Bioinformatics! What a good memories has brought me this post! By the way, very funny this application of Markov!
Cheers!
HMM biogeeks unite. I've never had to directly use touch them in my field, but they're part of a lot of the underlying toolset.
Aeons and ages ago, I remember playing with the disassociated press PERl module to do text generation like this.
I never used Perl. But I have heard that Perl was great for string processing etc.
Yeah, it was the one really sane option for strings back in the day when your other choices were pre-standards C/C++ or, well, pretty much that.
Happy to know that you liked it. Yes HMMs are very key in sequence analysis etc in Bioinformatics. You followed Jaynes' book?
Do you refer to "Probability Theory: the logic of science" written by E.T Jaynes? I have just googled it because I didn't know this author and this book seems interesting. During the lessons/lectures we mainly used slideshows made by our teacher and some papers of HMMs related to bioinformatics.
Yes I meant that book. 😃