Looking at the outcomes of early runs we discovered that EQU was evolving despite lack of incentive!
Troubleshooting: Discovered that events file was not reading in Environment.cfg files, we did not realize that actual environment information needs to be in Events.cfg
Fix: Combining Emily Jane and Erkin's python scripts to generate events files with randomized environment files within them.
Problem: When avida reads a change environment line, that doesn't work, it doesn't throw any errors, so we thought it was running fine, when avida was actually using the default environment file.
We need errors to let us know when some thing has gone wrong!!
Also, it would be much better if we could change Environment files on the fly!
All,
ReplyDeleteThis was just sent out in an email from the MSU EEBB program director:
"Hi folks,
Check out the cool new article in Science on evolvability by the folks in Rich Lenski's lab. It is a very cool study!!
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6023/1433.abstract#aff-1
Kudos to Rich and his colleagues."
I hope you find it useful!