Impact of different recombination methods in a mutation-specific MOEA for a biochemical application

  • Authors:
  • Susanne Rosenthal;Nail El-Sourani;Markus Borschbach

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Computer Science, Chair of Optimized Systems, University of Applied Sciences, FHDW, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany;Faculty of Computer Science, Chair of Optimized Systems, University of Applied Sciences, FHDW, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany;Faculty of Computer Science, Chair of Optimized Systems, University of Applied Sciences, FHDW, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

  • Venue:
  • EvoBIO'13 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Peptides play a key role in the development of drug candidates and diagnostic interventions, respectively. The design of peptides is cost-intensive and difficult in general for several well-known reasons. Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) introduce adequate in silico methods for finding optimal peptides sequences which optimize several molecular properties. A mutation-specific fast non-dominated sorting GA (termed MSNSGA-II) was especially designed for this purpose. In this work, an empirical study is presented about the performance of MSNSGA-II which is extended by optionally three different recombination operators. The main idea is to gain an insight into the significance of recombination for the performance of MSNSGA-II in general - and to improve the performance with these intuitive recombination methods for biochemical optimization. The benchmark test for this study is a three-dimensional optimization problem, using fitness functions provided by the BioJava library.