ForSim is a forward evolutionary simulation system designed to be highly flexible for

application to a wide variety of both applied health and life science questions as well as
issues in theoretical evolutionary biology. It attempts to simulate in the most natural
way the evolutionary process that generates the genetic architecture that underlies
present-day traits, and related phenomena such as mate choice, migration bias,
population substructure, and interactions with the environment. These phenomena are
related to the way natural selection affects underlying genetic variation, molding the
traits genetic architecture. Variation over the short evolutionary scale, within species or
among closely related species, is generally built upon a phylogenetically stable
underlying causal genetic architecture upon which mutation, selection, and
demographic effects are laid to generate subsequent variation within and among
populations.

ForSim es un sistema de simulacin de evolucin progresiva, diseado para ser

altamente flexible para la aplicacin en una amplia variedad de temas de la ciencia y la
salud, asi como problemas de evolucin biolgica teorica. Intenta simular de la manera
mas natural los procesos de evolucin, que generan la arquitectura gentica que
implican las innovaciones del presente, adems de los fenmenos actuales asi como
la migracin, la estructura de la poblacin, e interacciones con el medio ambiente.
Estos fenmenos estn relacionadas a la manera en que la seleccin natural afeca la
variacin gentica. La variacin sobre la corta escala evolutiva, dentro de las especies
o entre especies muy relacionadas, es generalmente construido sobre una
psicogentica estable, esta a la vez, construida sobre una arquitectura gentica, sobre
mutacion, seleccin y efectos demogrficos cuy objetivo es generar variaciones
subsecuentes dentro y entre la poblacin.
ForSim is written in C++ with processing and controlling scripts written in Ruby. The
scripts are written in Ruby 1.8, but should be compatible with later versions. The
wrapper calls other software as well, if available (see below). All required or optional
software is public domain. The program is not a commercial product, but is under
continual development and augmentation, so current versions (and manual) should
always be used.

takes its input conditions from an input file. All user-settable

conditionswhich
means most conditionsare specified in this file, described below.
The installation
directory contains simple demonstration *.sim input files. Any input
file name is
accepted, so long as it is a plain text file.