Section: New Software and Platforms

Aevol (artificial evolution)

Participants : Guillaume Beslon, Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas, Carole Knibbe, Priscila Biller, Bérénice Batut.

• Contact: Carole Knibbe (carole.knibbe@inria.fr).

• Aevol is a simulation software dedicated to the study of genome evolution. It allows to carry out in silico experimental evolution. Populations of digital organisms reproduce and mutate randomly, with both small mutations and large chromosomic rearrangements, in a steady or varying environment. A curve-fitting task is used to determine the fitness of the organisms and thus their rate of reproduction. The number of genes, their order, their sequences, their intergenic distances are all free to evolve. Thanks to a two-year grant from Inria’s Technological Development Department (ADT « aevol »), the development of an improved and parallel version of the software has started in October.

• URL: http://www.aevol.fr