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Darwin's 200th birthday
Today is Darwin Day 200! Join us in celebrating the achievements of one of the most careful observers of nature.
New evolution@home computing project for Simulator005
A new set of computing tasks is published today in order to further investigate how two different types of slightly harmful DNA changes interact with each other's evolutionary behaviour in a population.
Evolution@home has quantified Muller's ratchet in the worm C. elegans
The small worm Caenorhabditis elegans is known for his high rate of selfing that may make it susceptible to the operation of Muller's ratchet. Now evolution@home has found that this worm would indeed be in trouble if there were no processes that would counter genomic decay in this worm or if selfing was very old.
BOINC contributions overtake email submissions
By now the new fully automated BOINC system has contributed more CPU-years in results than all previous email submissions combined.
Rechenkraft.net interviews evolution@home
Rechenkraft.net is an important long-term contributor to evolution@home computing power. They asked Laurence Loewe about how it was to start evolution@home and about future directions.
Muller's ratchet quantified in the Amazon molly
The Amazon molly has long been suspected of being threatened with extinction by Muller's ratchet. Now evolution@home has found that indeed there is a genomic decay paradox in this fish. Thus the search for processes that keep this fish alive is important.
evolution@home demonstrates minimalist global computing
Right from the start evolution@home employed a minimalist approach to global computing due to a severe lack of resources. The manuscript describing experiences on the way is now available.
Evolutionary Systems Biology Seminars
Evolutionary biology and systems biology make for a powerful combination that has the potential to answer many questions about the structure of genomes. Two seminars by Prof. Laurence D. Hurst (University of Bath) at the University of Edinburgh will highlight the potential of this approach.
High scores: 260 CPU years of total contributions
With the help of fully automated global computing via BOINC-yoyo, the total contributions to evolution@home have reached 260 CPU years. The list of most important work units for the semi-automated email system has been adjusted accordingly.
Conferences on Evolution and Sex
The 2008 conference of the Society for the Study of Evolution has two symposiums that are dedicated to the evolution of sex and recombination. It follows immediately after another meeting on the evolution of sex.
The 7th birthday of evolution@home
Simulator005 started its public operation today 7 years ago. Time for some celebration.
Live Webcast by Kenneth Miller: Why ID fails to convince
Controversies about evolution are never very far in the US. Recent attempts to introduce criticism of evolution into biology classes have failed. A live webcast on the 4th of April 2008 by Prof. Kenneth R Miller will explain more.
Why are we still alive?
The first analysis of evolution in Simulator005 is now available as a free download. Its core result is that the current simple standard model of human mitochondrial DNA evolution is incomplete, as it would predict the extinction of the human line in less than 20 million years. While the hunt for extensions of the standard model is on, this work provides yet another reason to fight any pollution that harms our DNA.
Live Webcast by Kenneth Miller: Why ID fails to convince
Controversies about evolution are never very far in the US. Recent attempts to introduce critizism of evolution into biology classes have failed. A live webcast on the 4th of April 2008 by Prof. Kenneth R Miller will explain more.
The evolutionary research blog has started
Read new entries about evolution in general and evolution@home in particular, including new results, old gems, practical applications and tools for the research behind the scenes. Events related to evolution will also be announced.
Evolution@home predicts Muller's ratchet in human mtDNA
Today the first biological results paper of evolution@home was published in Genetical Research by Cambridge University Press. It analyses deleterious mutation accumulation from Muller's ratchet in human mitochondrial DNA, a vital part of mankind's genetic makeup.
Darwin Day
Darwin's birthday (12th Feb 1809) is celebrated since 2004 to commemorate his achievements in biology.
German Translation Infrastructure
In order to facilitate a much requested German translation, new software was installed. Now the actual translation work can begin.
BOINC-EvoHo prototype successfull
Development of a prototypic integration of Simulator005 into the fully automated BOINC global computing system has already lead to over 80 years of CPU-time contributed in less than 3 months.
High scores update
A new update of the high scores is available for all email submissions. BOINC results will be processed later.
