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Active Projects - Biology & Medicine

Evolution@home simulates certain types of evolution with a semi-automated program where you have to e-mail the results back to the project yourself. The current phase is attempting to answer questions about species extinction. We all know what the theory of evolution is, but here is a funny quote from the website, "As most people know, deleterious mutations happen more often than advantageous ones." Do you really think so!? This project has been ported to BOINC Platform using the BOINC wrapper application.
 

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  • Progress 2012
    A brief update on current progress
  • 10 year anniversary of evolution@home
    Thank you for all your CPU-time contributions. The last decade got evolution@home off the ground. The next one will make it grow.
  • Starting the Evolutionary Systems Biology Group at UW-Madison
    Laurence Loewe, founder of evolution@home, joins the faculty of the Laboratory of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • New approach for predicting the speed of Muller's ratchet
    David Waxman of the University of Sussex (UK) developed a new approach for predicting the rate of mutation accumulation from Muller's ratchet. Evolution@home results helped to test the predictions.
  • The population genetics of mutations: good, bad and indifferent
    At its heart evolution@home investigates how DNA changes affect populations in the long run. The scene for this work has been set by the research of evolutionary biologists like Brian Charlesworth. To mark his 65th birthday on 29 April 2010 and his many significant contributions, a themed issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B has been published on 'The population genetics of mutations: good, bad and indifferent'. It comprises articles by a number of influential individuals who have been associated with Brian over the years.
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