
Welcome to the Animal Simulation Laboratory based in the Adaptive Organismal Biology research group at the Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester. Our goal is the creation of virtual worlds that can be used for exploring adaptation and evolutionary processes. This is a long term, large scale project and will require contributions from scientists around the world to make it a useful reality. However there are a number of components that will be required for the virtual world to be a useful tool that we are currently working on. Our main focus is currently locomotor biomechanics. GaitSym, our main simulation program, is available open source and has reached version 2. It can be downloaded from this site. You can find out about people working on various projects on our Wiki.






