User-defined Chromosomes

Although GAUL provides several, commonly used, chromosome types there will always be occassions where a problem-specific chromosome will be highly beneficial. Creating a new chromosome type is relatively straight forward because the core routines in GAUL were designed to be chromosome datatype agnostic.

A later section of this tutorial applies a custom chromosome in the optimisation of a neural network.

Example code demonstrating a new chromosome definition is in molecule.c. This example optimises the structure of a small chemical compound using a simplified molecular forcefield as the scoring function. The exact details of this calculation are not discussed, but the code relevant to the custom chromosome type is. This code is described below:

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