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April 3^rd, 2012: After a long incubation period, a new generation of the VirtualLabs is emerging: EvoLudo, a wiki based system that facilitates collaborative efforts to complement and augment research articles on evolutionary dynamics with interactive tutorials.

As of today a new tutorial on the Stochastic dynamics in finite populations is available on EvoLudo complementing a research article with Arne Traulsen and Jens-Christian Claussen in Phys. Rev. E 85 041901 doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.041901.

Some of the VirtualLabs tutorials have already been revised, extended and migrated to EvoLudo and the remaining ones will follow in the near future. If you would like to get involved please contact me.

The first version of the VirtualLabs has been published in 2002, while I was working as a post-doctoral fellow with Karl Sigmund. Over the ten years the VirtualLabs have attracted almost 300'000 visitors. Now let's take this to a new level with EvoLudo.

The VirtualLabs will remain available but no further updates to this site are planned in the near future. Please update your links and take advantage of the new and much more powerful java applets on EvoLudo.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

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