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Tutorial: Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks
This tutorial will first introduce the biology of these networks, from the genetic aspect to the dynamics of gene regulation. Then, biologically plausible models will be presented to highlight the complexity of dynamics gene regulatory networks can produce. Using that model, we will show how computational models can be designed so that a genetic algorithm can optimize the network efficiently. We will present a set of applications in which artificial gene regulatory networks are plugged into diverse virtual agents (artificial cells in an artificial embryogenesis context, direct connection to the sensors and effectors or high-level behavior regulation in others). Demos, showing the results obtained with this system, will be presented all along the tutorial. Read more