Re: [Swarm-Modelling] population genetics

[Paul Johnson]

I'd just like to know / see examples of models that read in detailed 
data to initialize a simulation.  Anybody got one besides the Anasazi 
Village model??

pj

Scott Christley wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Is anybody aware of research with an agent-based model (or other  
> modeling approaches) that simulates evolution (recombination/ 
> mutation) on actual genomic data?  I'm aware that genetic algorithms  
> often use an artificial genome with attributes encoded in artificial  
> genes, but I am looking for anybody who is using actual nucleotide  
> sequence.  For example, a population genetics study may have  
> sequenced a number of alleles for an organism, then use those alleles  
> (and possible allele frequencies) to simulate and predict how  
> environmental changes could affect the population diversity.  I am  
> able to find empirical studies which record allozyme diversity across  
> species, spatially, etc. but I have not found anybody doing  
> simulations with the actual genomic data.
>
> thanks
> Scott
>
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