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This essay proposes methods to analyse the variability of biological data. The idea is to express the state of a biological system as a linear combination of base states in a Hilbert space. Coefficients of the linear combination can be interpreted as probabilities and informational entropy is associated to each state allowing the definition of a classical variability measure. Besides, state transition...