A lifecycle model for simulating bacterial evolution
Authored by B Niu, Y L Zhu, X X He, H Shen, Q H Wu
Date Published: 2008
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2007.12.042
Sponsors:
Chinese National Natural Science Foundation
National Basic Research Program of China
Platforms:
No platforms listed
Model Documentation:
Other Narrative
Flow charts
Pseudocode
Model Code URLs:
Model code not found
Abstract
This paper presents a lifecycle model (LCM) to simulate bacterial
evolution from a finite population of Escherichia coli (E. coli)
bacteria. The potential of this approach is in relating the microscopic
behaviors of single bacterial cell to the macroscopic effects of
bacterial colonies. This can be accomplished via use of an
individual-based modeling method under the framework of
agent-environment-rule (AER). Here, our study focuses on investigating
the behaviors at different developmental stages in E. coli lifecycle and
developing a new biologically inspired methodology for static or dynamic
systems. The experimental results through a varying environment
demonstrates that our model can be used to study under which
circumstances a certain bacterial behaviors emerges, and also give an
inspiration to design a new biological optimization algorithm being used
for optimization problems. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Tags
chemotaxis
growth
Escherichia-coli