This is a project by the EASME team to analyze and predict the evolution of the tomato spotted wilt virus in Alabama.
Make sure you have the EASME core library installed in your Python Lib folder!
The core evolutionary loop begins with an initial population of TSWV individuals found in Alabama, then grows new individuals from those. Reproduction is done through single-point crossover between two individuals, and new children are mutated using a simple (but biologically-accurate) substitution operator. New individuals that have a higher fitness are appended to the phylogenetic trees of their parents. Fitness is judged by similarity to a consensus sequence generated from the most common base pairs for each sequence position in the input data.