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Bioinformatics

Alignment toolVery simple pairwise sequence alignment tool supporting custom match/mismatch scores as well as scoring matrices. Affine gap penalties are not implemented. Visualizes the traceback matrix and path and shows the optimal alignments. ScreenshotJava

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Artificial intelligence / Artificial life

Some programs implementing simple artificial intelligence experiments. Written in different Windows-only programming languages.

NN AntsArtifical ants trying to collect food. The movement is controlled by an artifical neural network trained with a genetic algorithm. The readme file in the archive contains further information. Screenshot

C#
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FloysArticifial "life forms" following very simple movement rules resulting in a fish swarm-like behaviour of the whole group. Inspired by this Java applet. Screenshot

C#
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Disc problemUses a genetic algorithm to find the largest possible non-overlapping disk (= circle) on an area with disks scattered over its surface. Screenshot

Visual Basic
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Conway's game of lifeImplementation of "Conway's Game of Life" (learn more here). Contains some predefined scenarios. Note that this simple implementation operates on a very limited area. Screenshot

Visual Basic
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Artificial TermitesWood-collecting artificial termites. Inspired by this Java applet. ScreenshotC#
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Other projects

JK News ArchiverNewsreader specialized for archiving large numbers of messages. The code is not optimal nor does it use state of the art technology, but the program contains a lot of useful newsreader features. Screenshot 1, Screenshot 2, Screenshot 3Visual Basic / Visual C++
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Between 2002 and 2004 I did some projects on RentACoder.