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	The Devolab at MSU
		Avida is an auto-adaptive genetic system designed primarily for use as a platform in Digital or Artificial Life research.
		Avida allows us to study questions and perform experiments in evolutionary dynamics and theoretical biology that are intractable in real biological systems.
		Avida versions are available from a variety of development and research stages.
	devolab.cse.msu.edu /software/avida (275 words)

	Avida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Avida is an artificial life software platform to study the evolutionary biology of self-replicating and evolving computer programs (digital organisms).
		Avida was originally developed by Chris Adami, Titus Brown, and Charles Ofria, and was inspired by and inherits several of its properties from the Tierra system.
		The irreducible complexity expressed by the equals operator in Avida is improbable, but not so improbable as to be beyond the search capability of Avida as it generates millions of virtual organisms, and more probable than the universal probability bound.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Avida (652 words)

	AVIDA-GROUP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
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	www.avida-group.com /english_version (177 words)

	AVIDA-GROUP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
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	www.avida-group.com /english_version/news6.htm (778 words)

	Brainstorms: Evaluation of neo-Darwinian Theory with Avida Simulations
		Avida circumvents critical considerations with respect to the propagation of destructive entropy.
		Avida allows no propagation of point mutations to critical life functions, neither does it grant propagation to copy, divide, insert, delete mutations to critical life functions.
		Some Avida researchers seem to be aware of this fact, as further discussed in Part 2, but a parameter is not provided in the genesis file to include this effect during simulations.
	www.iscid.org /boards/ubb-get_topic-f-6-t-000532.html (3368 words)

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	www.avidacustomhomes.com /aboutus.html (291 words)

	The Digital Life Lab at Caltech
		The power of Avida is that it gives us a controllable digital system in which to study the theories of evolutionary biology.
		Avida is a joint project of the Digital Life Laboratory (headed by Chris Adami) at the California Institute of Technology and Richard Lenski's Microbial Evolution laboratory at Michigan State university.
		Avida is open-source and anyone is welcome to modify it to his or her needs.
	dllab.caltech.edu /avida/about.shtml (321 words)

	08/25/97 DAN AVIDA
		By the time it was over, Avida had spent glorious hours playing around Stanford's world-class computer labs, tinkered with punch-card computers in his third-grade class, and read books on inventors such as Edison while his pals read up on sports heroes.
		It was no surprise, then, when Avida left his native country for high tech's mecca the day after finishing his mandatory military service in 1989.
		The company, which makes hardware and software that lets graphic artists use their color copiers as high-speed printers, grew from $190 million in revenues in 1995 to $298 million in 1996, and is on pace to hit $400 million this year.
	www.businessweek.com /@@FJN6dmYQ1V9cZQUA/1997/34/b354146.htm (611 words)

	Testing Darwin - - science news articles online technology magazine articles Testing Darwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		A software program called Avida allows researchers to track the birth, life, and death of generation after generation of the digital organisms by scanning columns of numbers that pour down a computer screen like waterfalls.
		“Avida is not a simulation of evolution; it is an instance of it,” Pennock says.
		He still marvels at the flexibility and speed of Avida, which not only allow him to alter experimental conditions with a few keystrokes but also to automatically record every mutation in every organism.
	www.discover.com /issues/feb-05/cover (1201 words)

	Uncommon Descent » C’est la Avida
		First (and it really is an aside in terms of my critique of Avida), my point regarding Avida is not that a particular definition of irreducible complexity is at question, as I clearly indicated in the forgotten footnote.
		My point is that Avida adopts as its programming functionality the very concepts in question: that a cumulative pathway exists, it is a relatively easy pathway, there are regular rewards for incremental advancement along the pathway, and so forth.
		This problem is not limited to Avida; this is the quandary we are in with all attempts to write programs that demonstrate this or that pathway to current organisms or functions.
	www.uncommondescent.com /index.php/archives/907 (4042 words)

	Debian -- avida-base
		Avida is an auto-adaptive genetic system designed primarily for use as a platform in Digital or Artificial Life research.
		In lay terms, Avida is a digital world in which simple computer programs mutate and evolve.
		Avida allows us to study questions and perform experiments in evolutionalry dynamics and theoretical biology that are intractable in real biological system.
	packages.debian.org /unstable/science/avida-base (139 words)

	The State News - www.statenews.com
		The similarity is so close that a software program called Avida has attracted a microbiologist, a computer scientist, a philosopher and others at MSU to study the grandiose theory of evolution by way of digital data.
		Pennock said his research with Avida centers around how "digital organisms"; can be similar to their living counterparts.
		Lenski added that researchers aren't using Avida to compare bacteria and "digital organisms,"; but to study reasons for evolutionary change, such as how new complex functions evolve and what makes evolution speed up or slow down.
	www.statenews.com /article.phtml?pk=27933 (1236 words)

	CarlZimmer.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The Avida team then traced the genealogy leading from the first organism to each one that had evolved the equals routine.
		When the Avida team published their first results on the evolution of complexity in 2003, they were inundated with e-mails from creationists.
		The Avida team subsequently flooded some digital worlds with numbers and limited others to a scant supply, and the same pattern of diversity found in global ecosystems emerged.
	www.carlzimmer.com /articles/2005/articles_2005_Avida.html (4141 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		This will create a directory called Avida/ with two sub-directories: The avida/ sub-directory contains all of the source code for the program, and the work/ sub-directory is where all of the configuration files are located, and where Avida should be run.
		Compiling avida from this source code should be a simple process on most systems.
		If this default directory is set, avida will look in it for the config files _only if_ it can't find them locally (the local files always have precedence).
	www.cs.bgu.ac.il /~bergig/home/sym1/download/avida-1.3.0/INSTALL (419 words)

	The Digital Life Lab at Caltech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Avida allows us to study questions and perform experiments in evolutionalry dynamics and theoretical biology that are intractable in real biological system.
		If you would like to be on the mailing to discuss avida in general, from both the scientific (how to use avida and what it's being used for) and the software development (anything involving the source code) standpoint subscribe to avida-discuss@alife.org.
		Avida is a joint project of the Digital Life Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (headed by Chris Adami) and the Digital Evolution Group at Michigan State University (headed by Charles Ofria and Richard Lenski) For more info on these groups or our research, please visit the links above.
	nemus.dllab.caltech.edu /avida (359 words)

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	www.avidaamericas.com /companyinfo.htm (205 words)

	European Venture Capital Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		AVIDA Group was founded in 1999 to advise and support institutional investors as well as fund management companies involved in private equity.
		The core activities of AVIDA Group is to identify and understand the specific needs of institutional investors.
		AVIDA has its own private equity funds that have been structured and set up as part of its fund development strategy and it also manages third party funds for which the management function has been taken over by a specialised AVIDA team at the request of the investors concerned.
	www.ventureeconomics.com /evcj/protected/penews/1093015896663.html (202 words)

	The Devolab at MSU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Much of the work in the Devolab is centered on research with and the continued development of the Avida digital evolution research platform.
		In Avida, a population of self-replicating computer programs is subjected to external pressures (such as mutations and limited resources) and allowed to evolve subject to natural selection.
		This is not a mere simulation of evolution -- digital organisms in Avida evolve to survive in a complex computational environment and will adapt to perform entirely new traits in ways never expected by the researchers, some of which seem highly creative.
	devolab.cse.msu.edu (284 words)

	Avida Muller's Ratchet Project
		If the fitness of the population sinks to a level where the organisms are reproducing too slowly to reach 3600 organisms in the time between apocalypse events then fewer organisms will be selected at each event until no reproducing organisms are selected.
		This aspect of Avida differs from the experiment done by Andersson and Hughes in that for their experiment a viable colony was selected for each new population bottleneck.
		In order to see significant effects from Muller's ratchet in a reasonable time with Avida it is necessary to increase the pressure of the ratchet further by increasing mutation rates.
	www.its.caltech.edu /~ronaldc/Muller's_ratchet_summary.html (943 words)

	AmbivaBlog: Intelligent Design-ers Strike Back
		At the end of this post about the Avida experiment -- a computer simulation of evolution that is claimed to demonstrate that random mutation and natural selection could generate great complexity -- I rhetorically asked Intelligent Design advocates what they had to say about it.
		I asked him if there was a convincing rejoinder to the Avida experiment, and he responded with this link to an essay [in PDF] by Royal Truman (now there's a name!) of Mannheim, Germany.
		Avida, athough it does not simulate the full complexity of living organisms, does demostrate that in models, it's quite possible to have complex structures evolve incrementally.
	ambivablog.typepad.com /ambivablog/2005/02/intelligent_des.html (2515 words)

	Forums - Evaluation of neo-Darwinian Theory with Avida Simulations
		Abstract: Avida is a computer software platform designed to test neo-Darwinian scenarios including speciation, evolution of novel complex functions, and genetic drift.
		It was found in this two part series that reports which demonstrate rapid increase in complex, genetically coded novel functions are an artefact intrinsic to how the Avida computer runs are planned and some neglected details constraints found in nature.
		We conclude that the computer experiments reported using the Avida framework so far has not demonstrated that neo-Darwinian processes could have produced the necessary coding information to produce the hundreds of molecular machines found in natural cells.
	engforum.pravda.ru /showthread.php3?threadid=85591 (1934 words)

	Uncommon Descent » AVIDA — The Simulation That Just Keeps Dissimulating
		Robert Pennock is quoted as saying “Avida is not a simulation of intelligent design; it is an instance of it.” No, strike that.
		For Lenski, experiments with Avida provide ‘both an “instance” and a “model” of evolution’.
		‘Our goal is not to mimic natural systems in detail, but rather to expand Avida to give digital organisms access to more of the basic processes of life’, says Lenski.
	www.uncommondescent.com /index.php/archives/166 (389 words)

	Avida-ED Project - Robert T. Pennock
		One of the most advanced artificial life systems is known as Avida, and it has become the platform of choice for certain difficult questions in experimental evolution.
		We believe that this digital evolution platform can also now become a revolutionary new educational tool that can help undergraduate students—our future researchers and teachers—understand and appreciate not only the power of the evolutionary mechanisms to produce biocomplexity, but also the nature of scientific reasoning itself.
		Observing evolutionary design is scarcely feasible in a natural system, but it can occur on very short time scales in the digital environment of Avida.
	www.msu.edu /~pennock5/research/Avida-ED.html (673 words)

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	www.avidadigital.com (100 words)

	The Digital Life Lab at Caltech
		Avida 2.0 contains an entirely re-written core and CPU model (while retaining compatibility with the version 1.x CPU), and includes a powerful QT-based GUI.
		If you would like to be on the mailing to discuss avida in general, from both the scientific (how to use avida and what it's being used for) and the software development (anything involving the source code) standpoint subscribe to avida-discuss@alife.org.
		Avida is a joint project of the Digital Life Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (headed by Chris Adami) and the Digital Evolution Group at Michigan State University (headed by Charles Ofria and Richard Lenski) For more info on these groups or our research, please visit the links above.
	dllab.caltech.edu /avida (359 words)

	Christoph Adami: Introduction to Artificial Life
		Again, some results from experiments with Avida are discussed and the kinds of fitness landscapes expressed in that model are described.
		In chapter ten, a parallel version of Avida (called Sanda) is used for experimentation with large populations.
		It is not an introduction to the diverse area of Artificial Life found in the various conference proceedings and journal publications on the subject.
	jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk /4/1/reviews/hales.html (2059 words)

	The Avida Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The avida group is a collection of students, professors, and other researchers interested in the study of the fundemental properties of living and evolving systems.
		The head of the group is Dr. Christoph Adami who founded it along with C. Titus Brown and Charles Ofria in the summer of 1993 with the writing of the initial version of the avida software.
		There are currently two public mailing lists setup for the avida group.
	alife.ccp14.ac.uk /avida/avida/home/group.html (245 words)

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