simuPOP 1.1.7

Python-based simulation environment for genetics research

simuPOP is specially built to be a general-purpose individual-based forward-time population genetics simulation environment.

Built in Python, simuPOP provides a large number of objects and functions created in order to manipulate populations and a mechanism to evolve populations forward in time.

Using this R / Splus-like environment, users can create, manipulate and evolve populations interactively, or write a script and run it as a batch file. Owing to its flexible and extensible design, simuPOP can simulate large and complex evolutionary processes with ease.

At a more user-friendly level, simuPOP provides an increasing number of built-in scripts that perform simulations ranging from implementation of basic population genetics models to generating datasets under complex evolutionary scenarios.