# Avida Digital Life Platform

# About Avida

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 self-replicating 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 systems.

# Contact and Mailing Lists

We will post fixes or new features as we develop them. Please go to our development website on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/avida) to report any bugs that you find or if you want to request a feature or submit a patch.

If you would like to be involved in discussions about ongoing Avida research or development, you should join the Yahoo Group DigitalEvolution. If you are only interested in receiving notifications when we have published a new paper or when a major addition has been made to the software, join this group, but set your status to "Special Notices". We expect, on average, there will only be 1-2 special notices per month.