News

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.