Sunday, December 27, 2009

Forwsim

Catalogued on GSR

The program given below is based on the algorithm described in Padhukasahasram et al. 2008.

Forward Wright-Fisher Simulator

Download the files in the 3 links above. forwsim.c is a program that can efficiently simulate the evolution of a diploid Wright-Fisher population of constant size with uniform crossing-over rate, uniform mutation rate and with or without self-fertilization, forward in time. To compile type: g++ -O3 -o forwsim forwsim.c mtrand.cpp -Wno-deprecated. There are 8 different command line parameters which are:

-samples (Number of samples to output from final population.)

-pop (Total number of chromsomes in the diploid population. Should be a even number.)

-len (Length of the DNA sequence. Choose larger than del*u*pop)

-r (Per-generation per-sequence rate of recombination)

-u (Per-generation per-sequence rate of mutation)

-s (Probability of self-fertilization)

-gen (Total number of generations)

-del (Generations after which fixed mutations are removed)


To run type ./forwsim along with all the command line parameters in the same order. For example: ./forwsim -samples 100 -pop 1000 -len 1000000 -r 0.50 -u 0.50 -s 0.0 -gen 10000 -del 500. The output file is called finalpopulation.txt. Each line in this file corresponds to a chromosome in the population and the numbers represent positions of mutations in it. Consecutive pairs of lines represent homologous chromosomes in the diploid population.

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