Evolution@home results overview

This page provides a quick overview over published evolution@home results. At the moment this overview is incomplete, since the currrent website updating season is still going on. Current evolution@home results can be classified in three categories:

• Biological results directly computed with the help of evolution@home.
• Computer science results about the global computing aspects of evolution@home
• Biological background results that help preparing future evolution@home simulation projects, but were obtained without the direct help of evolution@home.
  

 All direct evolution@home results are currently produced by Simulator005.

Simulator005

This simulator was designed for analysing Muller's ratchet. It was also used to explore questions in global computing related to the simplest possible global computing system.  Here are some reports that link to research papers produced with the help of this simulator:

• Muller's ratchet in human mtDNA
  PDF (1.7MB) - see news here and here.
  This is the most rigorous study of the topic so far. It is also a comprehensive overview over potential solutions for genomic decay paradoxes, where the solutions for the paradox in mtDNA are explained in more detail than the others.
• Minimalist global computing with heterogeneous work units
  Software Practice & Experience (DOI link).
• Global computing with heterogeneous work units
  PDF (1MB) -  see this old link.
  

More are to follow.

Global computing

• Global computing with heterogeneous work units
  PDF (1MB) -  see this old link.
• Minimalist global computing with heterogeneous work units
  Software Practice & Experience (DOI link).

Biological background

The following work was done to help prepare the science behind new simulation projects of evolution@home:

• Inferring the distribution of mutational effects on fitness
  Method: PDF - Comparing distributions: PDF.
• Background selection within genes
  PDF.