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Table 1 Comparison between a selection of sequence simulation packages

From: πBUSS: a parallel BEAST/BEAGLE utility for sequence simulation under complex evolutionary scenarios

 

Evolutionary modelling

Implementation

Program

Codons1

Amino acids2

Indels

Partitions

Molecular clocks

Ancestral sequences

Coalescent models3

GUI

Multi-core

Cross-platform4

πBUSS

X

X

 

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Seq-Gen [7]

 

X

 

X

     

X

indel-Seq-Gen2 [32]

 

X

X

X

 

X

   

X

PhyloSim [33]

X

X

X

X

 

X

   

X

Recodon [34]

X

    

X

X

 

X

X

NetRecodon [35]

X

    

X

X

 

X

X

Indelible [36]

X

X

X

X

   

X

  

DAWG [37]

  

X

  

X

X

  

X

Mesquite [38]

     

X

X

X

 

X

Rose [39]

  

X

  

X

    

Evolver [8]

X

X

 

X

 

X

   

X

ProteinEvolver [40]

 

X

   

X

X

 

X

X

ALF [41]

X

X

X

X

 

X

X

X

 

X

GenomePop [42]

X

    

X

X5

  

X

SIMCOAL [43]

     

X

X

  

X

SIMPROT [44]

 

X

X

  

X

 

X

 

X

  1. 1πBUSS: GY94, MG94; PhyloSim: GY94 x M0 - M4; Recodon: GY94 x M0, M1, M7, M8; NetRecodon: GY94 x M0, M1, M7, M8; Indelible: GY94 x M0 - M10; Evolver: GY94 x M0, M1, M2, M3, M7, M8; ALF: GY94 x M0, M1, M7 and M8; GenomePop: MG94. 2πBUSS: BLOSUM [25], CPREV [45], Dayhoff [23], FLU [46], JTT [24], LG [27], MTREV [47], WAG [26]; Seq-Gen: JTT, WAG, PAM [48], BLOSUM, MTREV; indel-Seq-Gen2: PAM, JTT, MTREV, CPREV; PhyloSim: CPREV, JTT, LG, MTART [49], MTMAM [50], MTREV24 [51], MTZOA [52], PAM, WAG; Indelible: Dayhoff, JTT, WAG, VT [53], LG, BLOSUM, MTMAM, MTREV, MTART, CPREV, RTREV [54], HIVb [55], HIVw [55]; Evolver: Dayhoff, JTT, WAG, MTMAM, MTREV; ProteinEvolver: BLOSUM, CPREV, Dayhoff, HIVb, HIVw, JTT, Jones [24], LG, MTART, MTMAM, MTREV24, RTREV, VT, WAG; ALF: PAM,GTT,LG,WAG; SIMPROT: PAM, JTT, PMB. 3πBUSS: demography; Recodon: recombination, migration, demography; NetRecodon: recombination, migration, demography; Mesquite: speciation; ProteinEvolver: recombination, migration, demography; SIMCOAL: demography and migration. 4PhyloSim: R package; Indelible: Executables for Windows and MacOS; ALF: Web interface; GenomePop: Executables for Windows and Linux; SIMCOAL: Executables for Windows; SIMPROT: GUI, Web interface; SIMPROT: Executables for Windows and Linux. 5Forward simulation including recombination, demography and migration.