I would like to announce ogaraK, a simulator of malaria population genetics.
ogaraK is a Java Web Start application developed in Groovy and Java which allows to simulate parasite population genetics. It can be used, for instance, to compare the effects of different drug deployment policies.
A set of Python scripts are made available to analyze the results (mainly frequencies of resistance loci over time).
ogaraK is free software (GPL v3).
ogaraK can also be used to simulate some of common theories about sex: Epistasis, Red-Queen and spatial heterogeneity (but not based on size, as the underlying model has no concept of population numbers).
I would like to ask the reader for some basic help: If you can, could you please test the application (A single click to run, if you have Java 1.5+)? I know most people will not understand the results or the parameters, but just a simple run would help (and reporting back if something goes wrong!). The objective is to make the application available to epidemiologists, and due to their lack of IT knowledge, a robust application is needed. Any comments would really be appreciated (I make no financial profit from this free application). If you know Java Web Start, then if you could activate the console and return any error detected (even from a blind execution), that would be most appreciated.