Everything about AN codes

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: AN codesA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Hidden codes in mRNA: Control of gene expression by m6AInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Le Coran révélé par la théorie des codesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Compendium of Physical Activities: an update of activity codes and MET intensitiesCited 6,324 times
5. Go sideways: Barrett reductionA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Decoding methodsA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Compendium of Physical Activities: an update of activity codes and MET intensities

  BARBARA E. AINSWORTH, WILLIAM L. HASKELL, MELICIA C. WHITT · 2000 · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 6,324 citations

• Low-density parity-check codes

  R. Gallager · 1962 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 5,583 citations

• Space-time codes for high data rate wireless communication: performance criterion and code construction

  V. Tarokh, N. Seshadri, A.R. Calderbank · 1998 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 5,532 citations

• Space-time block codes from orthogonal designs

  V. Tarokh, H. Jafarkhani, A.R. Calderbank · 1999 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 5,327 citations

• Optimal decoding of linear codes for minimizing symbol error rate (Corresp.)

  L. Bahl, J. Cocke, F. Jelinek · 1974 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 4,889 citations

• Error bounds for convolutional codes and an asymptotically optimum decoding algorithm

  A. Viterbi · 1967 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 4,593 citations

• Error Detecting and Error Correcting Codes

  R. W. Hamming · 1950 · Bell System Technical Journal · 4,474 citations

• A Method for the Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes

  David Huffman · 1952 · Proceedings of the IRE · 4,274 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Hidden codes in mRNA: Control of gene expression by m6A

  Shino Murakami, Samie R. Jaffrey · 2022 · Molecular Cell · 302 citations

• The structures and functions of correlations in neural population codes

  Stefano Panzeri, Monica Moroni, Houman Safaai · 2022 · Nature Reviews Neuroscience · 289 citations

• Building a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer Using Concatenated Cat Codes

  Christopher Chamberland, Kyungjoo Noh, Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola · 2022 · PRX Quantum · 257 citations

• PyMatching: A Python Package for Decoding Quantum Codes with Minimum-Weight Perfect Matching

  Oscar Higgott · 2022 · ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing · 171 citations

• Quantum LDPC Codes With Almost Linear Minimum Distance

  Pavel Panteleev, Gleb Kalachev · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 166 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Le Coran révélé par la théorie des codesJean-Jacques Walter · 2014
• 📕2a Reunión IFLA de Expertos sobre un Código Internacional de CatalogaciónIFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code (2nd 2004 Buenos Aires, Argentina) · 2004
• 📕2a Reunión IFLA de Expertos sobre un Código Internacional de CatalogaciónAgeo García B. · 2004
• Guide to AI & Agent ZeroC. Urious, τ (Tau) · 2026

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