ReNCoDe: a regulatory network computational device

  • Authors:
  • Rui L. Lopes;Ernesto Costa

  • Affiliations:
  • Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • EuroGP'11 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Genetic programming
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In recent years, our biologic understanding was increased with the comprehension of the multitude of regulatory mechanisms that are fundamental in both processes of inheritance and of development, and some researchers advocate the need to explore computationally this new understanding. One of the outcomes was the Artificial Gene Regulatory (ARN) model, first proposed by Wolfgang Banzhaf. In this paper, we use this model as representation for a computational device and introduce new variation operators, showing experimentally that it is effective in solving a set of benchmark problems.