Environmental noise improves epistasis models of genetic data discovered using a computational evolution system

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1785-1786

  Greene, Casey S ^a   Hill, Douglas P ^a   Moore, Jason H ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational evolution; Genetics; Noise

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; COMPACT SOLUTIONS; DATA SETS; DISCRETE MEASURE; DNA SEQUENCE VARIATIONS; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENT CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; EVOLUTION SYSTEMS; FITNESS EVALUATIONS; GENERAL SOLUTIONS; GENETIC DATA; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMAN DISEASE; HUMAN GENETICS; HUMAN POPULATION; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; TRAINING DATA;

CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HEALTH; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 72749125627     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1569901.1570160     Document Type: Conference Paper

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