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AEGIS is a simulator of life history evolution of age-structured populations under customizable ecological scenarios. It is a numerical model based on the genetic algorithm paradigm.

In this wiki, you will find detailed information on how to install, run and adjust simulations in AEGIS for your needs, as well as how to analyze and visualize its output. On this page, you can find a list of wiki sections and short summaries of their contents.

Getting started (how to install and run AEGIS)

Gallery (examples of what AEGIS can do) 🚧

Concrete examples of potential use cases: motivating questions, model configurations and simulation results.

User guide (tutorials for solving common problems) 🚧

Instructions on how to perform certain technical tasks.

• How to modify configuration files
• How to read in output files

Visor (app for visualizing AEGIS results) 🚧

Explanation of the anatomy of the visualization app Visor, how it can be run and interacted with.

Reference (detailed model description)

Literature

List of related publications and technical notes on AEGIS.

• AEGIS: An In Silico Tool to model Genome Evolution in Age-Structured Populations (2019)
• An In Silico Model to Simulate the Evolution of Biological Aging (2016)
• Analytic behaviour of the neutral loci

Q&A 🚧

Compilation of user questions and answers.