A Community-Maintained Standard Library of Population Genetic Models

Adrion, JR, Cole, C. B., Dukler, N., Galloway, JG, Gladstein, AL, Gower, G, Kyriazis, CC, Ragsdale, AP, Tsambos, G, Baumdicker, F, Carlson, J., Cartwright, R. A., Durvasula, A, Gronau, I., Kim, BY, McKenzie, P, Messer, PW, Noskova, E, Ortega-Del Vecchyo, D., Racimo, F, Struck, TJ, Gravel, S, Gutenkunst, R. N., Lohmueller, K. E., Ralph, PL, Schrider, D. R., Siepel, A., Kelleher, J. E., Kern, A. D. (June 2020) A Community-Maintained Standard Library of Population Genetic Models. Elife, 9. ISSN 2050-084X (Electronic)2050-084X (Linking)

Abstract

The explosion in population genomic data demands ever more complex modes of analysis, and increasingly these analyses depend on sophisticated simulations. Re-cent advances in population genetic simulation have made it possible to simulate large and complex models, but specifying such models for a particular simulation engine remains a difficult and error-prone task. Computational genetics researchers currently re-implement simulation models independently, leading to inconsistency and duplication of effort. This situation presents a major barrier to empirical researchers seeking to use simulations for power analyses of upcoming studies or sanity checks on existing genomic data. Population genetics, as a field, also lacks standard benchmarks by which new tools for inference might be measured. Here we describe a new resource, stdpopsim, that attempts to rectify this situation. Stdpopsim is a community-driven open source project, which provides easy access to a growing catalog of published simulation models from a range of organisms and supports multiple simulation engine backends. This resource is available as a well-documented python library with a simple command-line interface. We share some examples demonstrating how stdpopsim can be used to systematically compare demographic inference methods, and we encourage a broader community of developers to contribute to this growing resource.

Item Type: Paper
Subjects: organism description > plant > Arabidopsis
bioinformatics
organism description > animal > insect > Drosophila
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics
organism description > animal
organism description > bacteria
organism description > bacteria > escherichia coli
organism description > animal > insect
organism description > plant
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > population genetics
CSHL Authors:
Communities: CSHL labs > Siepel lab
CSHL Cancer Center Program > Cancer Genetics and Genomics Program
Depositing User: Matthew Dunn
Date: 23 June 2020
Date Deposited: 06 Jul 2020 19:01
Last Modified: 26 Jan 2024 17:08
PMCID: PMC7438115
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/39511

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