coala - A Framework for Coalescent Simulation

Coalescent simulators can rapidly simulate biological sequences evolving according to a given model of evolution. You can use this package to specify such models, to conduct the simulations and to calculate additional statistics from the results (Staab, Metzler, 2016 <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw098>). It relies on existing simulators for doing the simulation, and currently supports the programs 'ms', 'msms' and 'scrm'. It also supports finite-sites mutation models by combining the simulators with the program 'seq-gen'. Coala provides functions for calculating certain summary statistics, which can also be applied to actual biological data. One possibility to import data is through the 'PopGenome' package (<https://github.com/pievos101/PopGenome>).

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jaatha - Simulation-Based Maximum Likelihood Parameter Estimation

An estimation method that can use computer simulations to approximate maximum-likelihood estimates even when the likelihood function can not be evaluated directly. It can be applied whenever it is feasible to conduct many simulations, but works best when the data is approximately Poisson distributed. It was originally designed for demographic inference in evolutionary biology (Naduvilezhath et al., 2011 <doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05131.x>, Mathew et al., 2013 <doi:10.1002/ece3.722>). It has optional support for conducting coalescent simulation using the 'coala' package.

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