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About
evolutionary-research
evolutionary-research
is a non-profit
bioinformatics initiative devoted to the advancement of scientific
evolutionary research. This shall be achieved by
- doing actual scientific research
- promoting understanding for that research in the general
public.
The current
main activity, evolution@home,
facilitates both: The public global distributed computing
adventure allows many non-specialists to actually do evolutionary
research and thus fosters their interest in the projects their
computers work on. Information about the projects and their
background can be found on this web page. This will make nobody
expert over night, but will help to understand more about
evolutionary research and why it is important.
evolutionary-research
has been founded in May 2000 by Laurence
Loewe,
an evolutionary biologist now at the Institute of Evolutionary
Biology in the University of Edinburgh. If he is not busy
with biological research, he continues to develop the next
simulator and the framework behind evolution@home, a software
framework that helps implementing individual-based evolutionary
models to be investigated by global computation. You can visit
his homepage at the University of Edinburgh at homepages.ed.ac.uk/lloewe.
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