Digital Organism Simulation Environment (DOSE): A Library for Ecologically-Based In Silico Experimental Evolution

Testing evolutionary hypothesis in biological setting is expensive and time consuming. Computer simulations of organisms (digital organisms) are commonly used proxies tostudy evolutionary processes. A number of digital organism simulators have been developed but are deficient in biologicaland ecological parallels. In this study, we present DOSE (Digital Organism Simulation Environment), a digital organism simulator with biological and ecological parallels. DOSEconsists of a biological hierarchy of genetic sequences, organism, population, and ecosystem. A 3-character instruction set thatdoes not take any operand is used as genetic code for digital organism, which the 3-nucleotide codon structure in naturallyoccurring DNA. The evolutionary driver is simulated by a genetic algorithm. We demonstrate the utility in examining the effects of migration on heterozygosity, also known as local genetic distance

کلیدواژه ها:

Digital Organisms ، Simulation Environment ، Ecology Simulation ، Migration ، Genetic Distance