Biota.org

»Biota.org - The Digital Biology Project« is a group of researchers among them Jake Bowman, Jan Hauser (Sun Microsystems), Karl Sims, Charles Osterman, Thomas S. Ray, Bruce Damer, Steve Grand and Cam McKechnie, who are all working on the same mission: »The mission of Biota.org is to promote and assist in the engineering of complete, biologically-inspired, synthetic ecosystems and organisms. This involves the creation and deployment of digital tools and environments for simulation, research, and learning about living systems both natural and artificial. These tools could range from simple genetic algorithms all the way up to full multi-user virtual environments. Biota.org will seek to nourish a community of interest and to bring the experience of interacting with digital biota to a large audience through the medium of the Internet. Cyberbiology is Artificial Life made visible through Cyberspace.«