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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks for a terrific resource!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm using the Steady State GA with a</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">GARealAlleleSetArray genome.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">here is a code snippet from GARealGenome.cpp from</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">GARealBlendCrossover():</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[...]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">float</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> lo = (GAMin(mom.gene(i), dad.gene(i))) - 0.5*dist;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">float</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> hi = (GAMax(mom.gene(i), dad.gene(i))) + 0.5*dist;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> sis.gene(i, GARandomFloat(lo, hi));</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> bro.gene(i, GARandomFloat(lo, hi));</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[...]</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">In my experience, the above code allows sis.gene(i) and bro.gene(i) to </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">take on values that are not within the defined allele set for these genes</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">because lo and hi are allowed to exceed the set bounds.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">In my application, a particular gene is defined as an set [10,2000]. If </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">mom and dad differ by 500, for example, and the min of mom and dad is 100, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">lo will be -250 and sis and bro have the potential to assign negative values </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">to this gene, which are outside the defined range of [10, 2000].</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I'm not sure of the best way to address this problem.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Is there an easy way to know the allele bounds in this subroutine?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Any suggestions would be much appreciated!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Lorena</FONT>
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