title: Genetic Algorithms Introduction
body: <p>Starting off let me clarify that i have seen <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/509173/genetic-algorithm-resource">This Genetic Algorithm Resource</a> question and it does not answer my question.</p>
  
  <p>I am doing a project in Bioinformatics. I have to take data about the NMR spectrum of a cell(E. Coli) and find out what are the different molecules(metabolites) present in the cell.</p>
  
  <p>To do this i am going to be using Genetic Algorithms in R language. I DO NOT have the time to go through huge books on Genetic algorithms. Heck! I dont even have time to go through little books.(That is what the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/509173/genetic-algorithm-resource">linked question</a> does not answer)</p>
  
  <p>So i need to know of resources which will help me understand quickly what it is Genetic Algorithms do and how they do it. I have read the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wikipedia entry</a> ,<a href="http://www.ai-junkie.com/ga/intro/gat1.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this webpage</a> and also a couple of IEEE papers on the subject.</p>
  
  <p>Any working code in R(even in C) or pointers to which R modules(if any) to be used would be helpful.</p>