QMSim: a large-scale genome simulator for livestock
Open Access
- 28 January 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Bioinformatics
- Vol. 25 (5), 680-681
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp045
Abstract
Summary: QMSim was designed to simulate large-scale genotyping data in multiple and complex livestock pedigrees. The simulation is basically carried out in two steps. In the first step, a historical population is simulated to establish mutation-drift equilibrium, and in the second step, recent population structures are generated, which can be very complex. A wide variety of genome architectures, ranging from infinitesimal model to single-locus model, can be simulated. The program is efficient in terms of computing time and memory requirements. Availability: Executable versions of QMSim for Windows and Linux are freely available at http://www.aps.uoguelph.ca/~msargol/qmsim/. Contact:msargol@uoguelph.caThis publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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