Table 1 Runtime benchmarking (in seconds) against comparable forward-in-time population genetic simulators
Population size | 500 | 1,000 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Length of the DNA locus | 500 | 1,000 | 500 | 1,000 | ||||
Number of generations | 1,000 | 10,000 | 1,000 | 10,000 | 1,000 | 10,000 | 1,000 | 10,000 |
SMARTPOP | 11 | 102 | 14 | 140 | 13 | 130 | 30 | 290 |
simuPOP [6] | 75 | 896 | 134 | 1,640 | 121 | 1,510 | 260 | 2,930 |
NEMO [8] | 960 | 9,390 | 1,790 | 17,800 | 1,990 | 18,950 | 3,870 | 35,900 |
quantiNEMO [9] | 467 | 4,870 | 1,050 | 10,300 | 1,630 | 11,300 | 3,650 | 23,700 |
Fregene [7] | 126 | 2,450 | 188 | 3,390 | 179 | 7,890 | 370 | 9,050 |
GenomePop [10] | 58 | 562 | 57 | 560 | 114 | 1,118 | 112 | 1,119 |
SLiM [11] | 32 | 327 | 33 | 351 | 63 | 681 | 64 | 763 |