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However, since HAART have several undesirable side effects, it is considered useful to suspend the therapy according to a suitable schedule of Structured Therapeutic Interruptions (STI).<\/jats:p><jats:p>In the present article we describe an application of genetic algorithms (GA) aimed at finding the optimal schedule for a HAART simulated with an agent-based model (ABM) of the immune system that reproduces the most significant features of the response of an organism to the HIV-1 infection.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: The genetic algorithm helps in finding an optimal therapeutic schedule that maximizes immune restoration, minimizes the viral count and, through appropriate interruptions of the therapy, minimizes the dose of drug administered to the simulated patient.<\/jats:p><jats:p>To validate the efficacy of the therapy that the genetic algorithm indicates as optimal, we ran simulations of opportunistic diseases and found that the selected therapy shows the best survival curve among the different simulated control groups.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability: A version of the C-ImmSim simulator is available at http:\/\/www.iac.cnr.it\/~filippo\/c-ImmSim.html<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0f.castiglione@iac.cnr.it<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btm408","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2007,10,18]],"date-time":"2007-10-18T00:44:48Z","timestamp":1192668288000},"page":"3350-3355","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":53,"title":["Optimization of HAART with genetic algorithms and agent-based models of HIV infection"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"F.","family":"Castiglione","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 \u00a01Institute for Computing Applications \u2018M. 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