# DNA usage
Let's say you found a good DNA and now you want to use it in your strategy. Go ahead and copy the DNA string that is displayed in the "evolving" dashboard. It should be a weird-looking string such as =;0
. Then, paste it as the 5th parameter of your trading route in your routes.py
file:
routes = [
('Bitfinex', 'BTC-USD', '15m', 'SMACrossover', '=;0'),
]
To see what would be the translated values for this DNA, run:
jesse routes --dna
The result should look something like:
Translated DNAs into hyper-parameters:
SMACrossover |
-----------------+-----------
slow_sma_period | 159
fast_sma_period | 28
Now if you run a backtest on the SMACrossover strategy, these new values will be used instead of the default ones that we defined earlier.