Guided evolution of in silico microbial populations in complex environments accelerates evolutionary rates through a step-wise adaptation.
Vadim MozhayskiyIlias TagkopoulosPublished in: BMC Bioinform. (2012)
Keyphrases
- complex environments
- step wise
- evolutionary process
- natural selection
- population dynamics
- horizontal gene transfer
- genetic algorithm
- evolutionary algorithm
- evolutionary computation
- computer simulation
- sequence data
- artificial life
- evolution process
- sequential decision tasks
- evolutionary robotics
- learning agents
- neural network
- grammatical evolution
- high throughput
- autonomous agents
- conceptual change
- evolutionary search
- evolutionary game theory
- gene duplication
- relational and xml data
- cognitive systems
- software evolution
- reverse engineering
- machine learning