Design of a dynamic model of genes with multiple autonomous regulatory modules by evolutionary computations
Alexander V Spirov1, David M Holloway
1State University of New York at Stony Brook, Computer Science Department and Center of Excellence in Wireless & Information Technology, Stony Brook University Research & Development Park, 1500 Stony Brook Road, Stony Brook, NY 11794-6040, USA.
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A new approach to design a dynamic model of genes with multiple autonomous regulatory modules by evolutionary computations is proposed. The approach is based on Genetic Algorithms (GA), with new crossover operators especially designed for these purposes. The new operators use local homology between parental strings to preserve building blocks found by the algorithm. The approach exploits the subbasin-portal architecture of the fitness functions suitable for this kind of evolutionary modeling. This architecture is significant for Royal Road class fitness functions. Two real-life Systems Biology problems with such fitness functions are implemented here: evolution of the bacterial promoter rrnPl and of the enhancer of the Drosophila even-skipped gene. The effectiveness of the approach compared to standard GA is demonstrated on several benchmark and real-life tasks.
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