Evolution@Home Explained
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evolution@home was a volunteer computing project for evolutionary biology, launched in 2001.[1] [2] The aim of evolution@home is to improve understanding of evolutionary processes. This is achieved by simulating individual-based models. The Simulator005 module of evolution@home was designed to better predict the behaviour of Muller's ratchet.[3]
The project was operated semi-automatically; participants had to manually download tasks from the webpage and submit results by email using this method of operation. yoyo@home used a BOINC wrapper to completely automate this project by automatically distributing tasks and collecting their results. Therefore, the BOINC version was a complete volunteer computing project. yoyo@home has declared its involvement in this project finished.[4]
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Loewe . L. . 2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID'02) . Evolution@home: Experiences with Work Units That Span More than 7 Orders of Magnitude in Computational Complexity . 2002 . 425 . 10.1109/CCGRID.2002.1017176. 0-7695-1582-7 . 16652927 .
- Loewe . Laurence . Evolution@home: observations on participant choice, work unit variation and low-effort global computing . Software: Practice and Experience . October 2007 . 37 . 12 . 1289–1318 . 10.1002/spe.806. 5143213 .
- Loewe . Laurence . Evolution@home: Global computing quantifies evolution due to Muller's ratchet . BMC Bioinformatics . 2005 . 6 . Suppl 3 . P18 . 10.1186/1471-2105-6-S3-P18. free .
- Web site: yoyo@home . www.rechenkraft.net . 25 April 2021 . 20 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210420004440/https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/ . live .
