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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.
Frequently used links
Evolution@home: Download the most recent simulator - Download the latest tasks to compute - submit results - Observe computing high scores.
Other links: News and more - Events calendar - Home page of Laurence Loewe - Overview of journals with articles on evolution - List of updated pages.
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, 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 | Anything news-worthy on evolution@home and more, computing high scores and general progress pages. |
| Simulators |
Programs for download and a bit on the science behind them. |
| Forum | Online forums with a strong focus on evolution@home. |
| 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. |
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:
- http://archive.evolution.ws/legacy/evoho/english-site/
= the last English version (frozen Sept 2006; includes link to a very old German translation)
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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