Evolvix is currently under active development.

While the first Evolvix Worker has been released (see Download), the Evolutionary Systems Biology Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is working hard at implementing the next huge upgrade.

Here is an overview of how Evolvix takes the various Parts and Actions that describe biological systems and maps them to mathematical methods:

Because these analyses have many computational challenges, Evolvix is being integrated with Evolution@home and various other computational grids. Here is an overview of these efforts:

Here is a poster for printing the same in one overview:
Download Evolvix & Evolution@home Overview Poster

Model, Query, Task

To get anything done in Evolvix you need to define three things:

• Model: Your description of the system that you want to analyze.
• Query: What you want to know about a Model.
• Task: Finally you need to specify a computational method and its
  

Evolvix development at the moment is setting up the infrastructure. Once that is done, development will be mostly about extending the types of models are are supported, as well as new Queries about them and the Evolvix Workers that actually get the answers.

In this context the currently released Evolvix Worker Ratch v0rS005-9c0 does the following:

• Model: Implements a simulation of Muller's ratchet.
• Query: Get timeseries and other output from that simulation
• Task: Run the simulation and get the answers to the Query.