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openModeller is an open source static spatial distribution modelling tool that is being developed by CRIA in colaboration with the Escola Politecnica (USP) and the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais with funding from Fapesp, the State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation. Many other international developers are participating as the code was made available at sourceforge. It is being used to predict species distribution (fundamental niche). Models are generated by an algorithm that receives as input a set of occurrence points (latitude/longitude) and a set of environmental layer files. It is being written in C++ ANSI with platform independence in mind. It accepts different algorithms and uses GDAL to read several map file formats and proj4 to convert between different georeferential systems and projections. A client-server architecture is being used as a first approach, enabling the existence of different client interfaces (desktop, command line and web based). In the future some tasks could be performed in a distributed way, including the possibility of running separately the algorithms in remote cluster machines. Its source code is available at sourceforge for all interested developers: http://www.sf.net/projects/openmodeller/
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