Starting from some simple observations on a popular selection method in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs)--tournament selection--we highlight a previously-unknown source of inefficien...
Background: The pan-genome of a bacterial species consists of a core and an accessory gene pool. The accessory genome is thought to be an important source of genetic variability i...
Chad Laing, Cody Buchanan, Eduardo N. Taboada, Yon...
In the class of repeated sequences that occur in DNA, minisatellites have been found polymorphic and became useful tools in genetic mapping and forensic studies. They consist of a...
The haplotype inference problem (HIP) asks to find a set of haplotypes which resolve a given set of genotypes. This problem is of enormous importance in many practical fields, su...
Michael R. Fellows, Tzvika Hartman, Danny Hermelin...
GP uses trees to represent chromosomes. The user defines the representation space by defining the set of functions and terminals to label the nodes in the trees, and GP searches t...