creatur-5.7.1: Framework for artificial life experiments.

Copyright(c) Amy de Buitléir 2013-2014
LicenseBSD-style
Maintaineramy@nualeargais.ie
Stabilityexperimental
Portabilityportable
Safe HaskellNone
LanguageHaskell98

ALife.Creatur.Genetics.BRGCBool

Description

Utilities for working with genes that are encoded as a sequence of bits, using a Binary Reflected Gray Code (BRGC).

A Gray code maps values to codes in a way that guarantees that the codes for two consecutive values will differ by only one bit. This feature can be useful in evolutionary programming because the genes resulting from a crossover operation are likely to be similar to the inputs. This helps to ensure that offspring are similar to their parents, as any radical changes from one generation to the next are the result of mutation alone.

Synopsis

Documentation

class Genetic g where Source

A class representing anything which is represented in, and determined by, an agent's genome. This might include traits, parameters, "organs" (components of agents), or even entire agents. Instances of this class can be thought of as genes, i.e., instructions for building an agent.

Minimal complete definition

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Methods

put :: g -> Writer () Source

Writes a gene to a sequence.

get :: Reader (Either [String] g) Source

Reads the next gene in a sequence.

getWithDefault :: g -> Reader g Source

Instances

type Writer = StateT Sequence Identity Source

type Reader = StateT (Sequence, Int) Identity Source

copy :: Reader Sequence Source

Return the entire genome.

consumed :: Reader Sequence Source

Return the portion of the genome that has been read.

type DiploidReader = StateT ((Sequence, Int), (Sequence, Int)) Identity Source

getAndExpress :: (Genetic g, Diploid g) => DiploidReader (Either [String] g) Source

Read the next pair of genes from twin sequences of genetic information, and return the resulting gene (after taking into account any dominance relationship) and the remaining (unread) portion of the two nucleotide strands.

copy2 :: DiploidReader DiploidSequence Source

Return the entire genome.

consumed2 :: DiploidReader DiploidSequence Source

Return the portion of the genome that has been read.