Editing Avida (software) (section)

{{Short description|Artificial life software platform}}
{{Infobox software
| name = 
| screenshot = Avida_2.6_screenshot.png
| caption = Map tab for Avida 2.6
| author = [[Charles Ofria]], [[Chris Adami]]
| developer = [[Charles Ofria]]
| latest release version = 2.14.0
| latest release date = {{start date and age|2014|02|06}}<ref name="releases">{{cite web
  | url = https://sourceforge.net/projects/avida/
  | title = Avida Digital Life Platform download
  | website = sourceforge.net
  | date = 6 February 2014
 | access-date = 2021-03-27
}}</ref>
| operating system = [[Microsoft Windows]] 7 or later, [[macOS]] 10.8 or later, Linux / Unix.
| programming language = [[C++]], [[Objective-C]]
| genre = [[Artificial life]]
| license = [[LGPL]]
}}

'''Avida''' is an [[artificial life]] software platform to study the [[evolutionary biology]] of [[self-replication|self-replicating]] and [[evolution|evolving]] [[computer program]]s ([[digital organism]]s). Avida is under active development by [[Charles Ofria]]'s Digital Evolution Lab at [[Michigan State University]]; the first version of Avida was designed in 1993 by Ofria, [[Chris Adami]] and [https://simplystatistics.org/posts/2012-08-17-interview-with-c-titus-brown-computational-biologist/ C. Titus Brown] at [[Caltech]], and has been fully reengineered by Ofria on multiple occasions since then.  The software was originally inspired by the [[Tierra (computer simulation)|Tierra]] system.