A framework to assist creation of marine ecosystem models,
             generating either 'R' or 'C++' code which can then be optimised using
             the 'TMB' package and standard 'R' tools. Principally designed to
             reproduce gadget2 models in 'TMB', but can be extended beyond
             gadget2's capabilities.
             Kasper Kristensen, Anders Nielsen, Casper W. Berg, Hans Skaug, Bradley M. Bell (2016) <doi:10.18637/jss.v070.i05> "TMB: Automatic Differentiation and Laplace Approximation.".
             Begley, J., & Howell, D. (2004) <https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/225936648.pdf> "An overview of Gadget, the globally applicable area-disaggregated general ecosystem toolbox. ICES.".

A group of sample points are evaluated against a
        user-defined expression, the sample points are lists of
        parameters with values that may be substituted into that
        expression. The genetic algorithm attempts to make the result
        of the expression as low as possible (usually this would be the
        sum of residuals squared).

Fits linear regression, logistic and multinomial regression models, Poisson regression, Cox model via Global Adaptive Generative Adjustment Algorithm.  
 For more detailed information, see Bin Wang, Xiaofei Wang and Jianhua Guo (2022) <arXiv:1911.00658>. 
 This paper provides the theoretical properties of Gaga linear model when the load matrix is orthogonal. 
 Further study is going on for the nonorthogonal cases and generalized linear models. 
 These works are in part supported by the National Natural Foundation of China (No.12171076).

Performs genetic algorithm (Scrucca, L (2013) <doi:10.18637/jss.v053.i04>) 
             assisted genomic best liner unbiased prediction for genomic selection.
             It also provides a binning method in natural population for genomic selection
             under the principle of linkage disequilibrium for dimensional reduction.

Tools for using genetic markers, stable isotope data, and habitat
    suitability data to calculate posterior probabilities of breeding origin of
    migrating birds.