Table 1 Feature comparisons of five widely used coalescent simulators
From: Critical assessment of coalescent simulators in modeling recombination hotspots in genomic sequences
Category | ms | msHOT | MaCS | Simcoal2 | Fastsimcoal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hotspot | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Gene Conversion | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Ascertainment | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Algorithm | SC†| SC | SMC’# | Gen-By-Gen* | SMC’ |
Admixture | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Multiple event/Gen | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Migration | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Population structure | Symmetric | Symmetric | Symmetric | Arbitrary | Arbitrary |
Different data types | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Arbitrary pattern of recombination | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Computation speed | Moderate | Moderate | Fast | Slow | Fast |
Sampling simulation parameters | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Publication Year | 2002 | 2007 | 2009 | 2004 | 2011 |
# of Citations** | 1,300 | 52 | 82 | 185 | 16 |