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Welcome to evolution@home and evolutionary-research!

Evolution@home is the first global computing system for evolutionary biology. It allows everybody with an Internet PC to contribute to evolutionary-research by running simulations of evolution.

   

Important evolution@home links

Download the most recent simulator - Download the latest tasks to compute - submit results - Observe computing high scores.

 

The evolutionary research blog

News and more
Read new articles about evolution in general and evolution@home in particular, including new results, old gems, practical applications and tools for the research behind the scenes.
Calendar
 Events related to evolution can be found in the calendar.
Updated pages
Wherever a page is improved on this site, it will be listed here thanks to Plone, our content management system.

 

Quick Start

Some useful hints, if you are new to evolution@home and evolutionary-research: 

  • Donate your idle CPU cycles by participating now. If you or your team belong to the top 3 suppliers of CPU power for a particular project, then you will get acknowledged in the scientific paper that analyses those results.
  • Evolution matters. Not only for scientists, but also in our daily lives - if you believe that we did indeed borrow this planet from our children. Humans can influence evolution to a surprisingly large degree and we better understand how! Thus we aim at bridging the gap between daily life and scientific research by explaining why evolutionary research is important. If you have questions, just let us know, we will do our best to help find answers.
  • For scientists: The evolutionary-research part of our pages is the growing science part of this site that is for you. We have a handy list of online journals that are important for evolutionary research and we can help you to quantify Muller's ratchet in your favourite study organism. Other materials will follow. So if you think we should list your favourite tools or sites, please let us know.

  

Site overview

The main areas of the evolutionary-research.net site  (latest updates):

Intro A more thorough introduction, FAQs and other background material. 
News Home of the evolutionary research blog, computing high scores and general progress pages. 
Simulators 
Programs for download and the science behind them.
Forum Online forums with a strong focus on evolution@home.
Action Upcoming: What you can do as a results of understanding evolution.
Science Research: background info and results.
Library Literature and databases for scientists interested in evolution. Features a journals overview page.
Tools Bioinformatics, programming, maths and other tools for research.
People Homepages of scientists associated with evolution@home and of some other researchers in evolutionary biology.

 

EvoHo.de may have emergency maintenance news if our main site is down. 

 

Where is the old site?

While the process of migrating content from the old site is going on, you can find the old site here:

Until all important content has been moved, you will be pointed to the old site if it still has more details than the new site. At the moment the core infrastructure of evolution@home (simulator, run-files, submission, high scores) still requires the old site, although you can find an updated introduction here.

 

Your contributions are welcome!

There are various ways in which you can contribute. From computing to content, from publicity to peer-review, the opportunities are almost infinite, so come and

          Join the adventure of evolutionary research!

Thank you for your help and for visiting this site.

The evolution@home team

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