APPLICATION OF INFORMATION-LOGICAL APPROA CH TO STUDIES OF GENETIC SYSTEMS

A new information technology, the information-logical approach (ILA), which is based on information theory methods and the fuzzy sets theory , is considered. This method can be applied for the majority of biolog ical and ecological studies, and in genetics. In breeding and genetic studies, ILA can be used as a basis for the development of methods tha t will allow one to take into account ecological, geographic, climatic , and other peculiarities of trait expression that influence productiv ity. Application of ILA also opens new prospects for analyzing results of genetic and ecological monitoring (e.g., post-Chernobyl' monitorin g) to predict further behavior of the systems studied. This paper pres ents a general outline of information analysis, describes a block of o ne-factor analysis, which was implemented on a personal computer and h as a user-friendly interface, and also presents several examples conce rning application of ILA to specific genetic systems.