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fastsimcoal: a continuous-time coalescent simulator of genomic diversity under arbitrarily complex evolutionary scenarios

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Excoffier, Laurent, Foll, Matthieu·2011·Bioinformatics

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Motivation: Genetic studies focus on increasingly larger genomic regions of both extant and ancient DNA, and there is a need for simulation software to match these technological advances. We present here a new coalescent-based simulation program fastsimcoal, which is able to quickly simulate a variety of genetic markers scattered over very long genomic regions with arbitrary recombination patterns under complex evolutionary scenarios. Availability and Implementation: fastsimcoal is a C++ program compiled for Windows, MacOsX and Linux platforms. It is freely available at cmpg.unibe.ch/software/fastsimcoal/, together with its detailed user manual and example input files. Contact: laurent.excoffier@iee.unibe.ch Supplementary Information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Authors
Excoffier, L., & Foll, M.
Venue
Bioinformatics
Published
2011-03-12
Volume
27
Issue
9
Pages
1332-1334
ISSN
  • 1367-4803 (ISSN-L)
  • 1367-4811
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W2101549247
Cited by
463
References
2
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10.78
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journal article
Language
en
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