Green
Creek Paradigms, LLC
Green
Creek Paradigms, LLC Thomas
Olivier, Ph.D. (
tolivier@starband.net)
CRITTRZ Population Simulation Kit Home Page
CRITTRZ
is a Python language library that supports construction of models of
demographic, genetic and infectious disease processes in animal
populations subdivided by space or social groupings.
Development of CRITTRZ has been motivated particularly by an interest in
processes in populations of Old World monkeys. The library includes an interface to a geographic information system
(GIS). It is designed for use by research biologists and conservation biologists.
CRITTRZ is open-source
software and can be downloaded freely. The
current release is a test release. It targets computers running Windows 2000 and XP
and Linux operating systems.
The eighth version of CRITTRZ ( Version 0.8.5 ) was released on 9-01-2008. The latest release includes a new application that models population genetic processes in a simulated monkey population structured by geographic space and social subdivisions. It also provides facilities to permit control of event and test logging from input files and various maintenance changes. Earlier releases remain available, but are obsolete.
The next release of CRITTRZ may be a beta release and is planned for late 2008.
Documentation
Oral
presentation at the 2003 PyCon Python language developers' conference.
Poster presented at the 2003 Society for Conservation Biology meetings.
Poster presented at the 2004 Society for Conservation Biology meetings.
Oral presentation at the 2005 Society for Conservation Biology meetings.
Oral presentation at the NKS 2006 Wolfram Science Conference.
Oral presentation at the 2007 Virginia GIS Conference.
Poster presented at the 2008 Society for Conservation Biology meetings.
Note
that the discussions in the PyCon and 2003 SCB presentations refer to development
versions of CRITTRZ as they
existed at two points in 2003. Some architectural features of Versions 0.7.0
onward are
different.
Download Information
CRITTRZ is available now in three distribution files. CRITTRZ.0.8.5.Win.zip contains the new core system for installation on Windows computers. CRITTRZ.0.8.5.WinIdr.zip contains the core system and modules that provide and use an interface to the Idrisi GIS ( sold by Clark Labs ) for Windows computers. CRITTRZ.0.8.5.Lin.tar.gz contains the core system for installation on Linux computers.
To download a distribution file, press on the link provided below:
Downloads
of current and previous distributions of CRITTRZ are available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/crittrz.
Distribution files include source code, documentation and sample applications. These
downloads also include a copy of Python source code and documentation for rv
Version 1.1, an open source random number generator developed by Ivan Frohne and
used by CRITTRZ.
Feedback
Comments
on CRITTRZ and bug reports are welcome by the author, Tom Olivier (tolivier@starband.net
).
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