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EvoAtlas is a fully self-contained, CPU-only computational engine for reconstructing multi-layer evolutionary pressure landscapes from nucleotide or protein sequence alignments. The system integrates four algorithmic layers: (1) HKY85 maximum-likelihood distance estimation and Neighbor-Joining phylogenetic tree construction; (2) site-wise evolutionary rate estimation via Shannon entropy proxy or Felsenstein pruning-based codon models; (3) population genetics statistics including Tajima's D, Fu & Li's F*, and nucleotide diversity π in sliding windows; and (4) epistatic coupling detection via normalized mutual information and Walsh-Hadamard Transform decomposition into additive, pairwise, and higher-order epistasis components.

Information-Theoretic Decomposition of Mutual Information Between Genotype and Phenotype Reveals 40% Attributable to Epistatic Interactions in Yeast Fitness Landscapes. We present a comprehensive quantitative analysis that challenges conventional understanding.