genome

What's a sensible way to represent a binary genome for a genetic algorithm?

My previous question belied my inexperience and was based on an assumption. Now I am much wiser. (Put 1s and 0s in a string? Pah! I laugh at the suggestion!) My question is then, how should I encode my genomes? On paper, they look like this: 01010011010110010 17 bits that encode (in some cases singly and in some cases as groups) the...