NEUTRAL MUTATIONS AND PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM IN EVOLVING GENETIC NETWORKS

Authors
BORNHOLDT S SNEPPEN K
Citation
S. Bornholdt et K. Sneppen, NEUTRAL MUTATIONS AND PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM IN EVOLVING GENETIC NETWORKS, Physical review letters, 81(1), 1998, pp. 236-239
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
81
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
236 - 239
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1998)81:1<236:NMAPEI>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
Boolean networks may be viewed as idealizations of biological genetic networks, where each node is represented by an on-off switch which is a function of the binary output from some other nodes. We evolve conne ctivity in a single Boolean network, and demonstrate how the sole requ irement of sequential matching of attractors may open for an evolution that exhibits punctuated equilibrium.