Clustering problems (including the clustering of individuals into outcrossing populations, hybrid generations, full-sib families and selfing lines) have recently received much attention in population ...

Quantitative biologists David McCandlish and Juannan Zhou at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have developed an algorithm with predictive power, giving scientists the ability to see how specific genetic ...

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In the diverse world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are a search heuristic that are inspired by Charles Darwin's theory of natural evolution. This evolutionary algorithm ...

With the development of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies and new sequencers, the exponential growth of biological information generated by the scientific community has brought benefits as ...

Immigration is generally considered an option in genetic algorithms, but I have found immigration to be extremely useful in almost all situations where I use evolutionary optimization. The idea of ...