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Structural variants PPT

Jit — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 03:16:09 -0500

1000 Genomes data tutorial at ASHG

Structural variants presentation by

Jan Korbel

European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg Genome Biology Research Unit

Reference:

https://www.genome.gov/pages/research/der/1000genomesprojecttutorials/structuralvariants-jankorbel.pdf

FERMI

Jit — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 05:37:13 -0500

Fermi is a de novo assembler with a particular focus on assembling Illumina short sequence reads from a mammal-sized genome. In addition to the role of a typical assembler, fermi also aims to preserve heterozygotes which are often collapsed by other assemblers. Its ultimate goal is to find a minimal set of
unitigs to represent all the information in raw reads.

Fermi follows the overlap-layout-consensus paradigm and uses the FM-DNA-index (FMD-index) as the key data structure. It is inspired by the string graph assembler (Simpson and Durbin, 2010 and 2012) and has a similar workflow.

As a typical de novo assembler, fermi tends to produce contigs with slightly longer N50. However, the major weakness of fermi is the high misassembly rate. Although fermi provides a tool to fix misassemblies by using paired-end reads to achieve an accuracy comparable to other assemblers, this is not a favorable solution.

Fermi is designed to be used on a multi-core Linux machine with large shared memory. The easiest way to run fermi is to use the run-fermi.pl script. It generates a Makefile. The actual assembly is done by invoking make. Premature assembly processes can be resumed. Here is an example:

run-fermi.pl -dAPe ./fermi -p NA12878 -t16 -f18 reads*.fq.gz > NA12878.mak
make -f NA12878.mak -j16

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/lh3/fermi

Shinyheatmap

Jit — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 05:12:11 -0500

Background: Transcriptomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, and other various next-generation sequencing (-omics) fields are known for their production of large datasets. Visualizing such big data has posed technical challenges in biology, both in terms of available computational resources as well as programming acumen. Since heatmaps are used to depict high-dimensional numerical data as a colored grid of cells, efficiency and speed have often proven to be critical considerations in the process of successfully converting data into graphics. For example, rendering interactive heatmaps from large input datasets (e.g., 100k+ rows) has been computationally infeasible on both desktop computers and web browsers. In addition to memory requirements, programming skills and knowledge have frequently been barriers-to-entry for creating highly customizable heatmaps. Results: We propose shinyheatmap: an advanced user-friendly heatmap software suite capable of efficiently creating highly customizable static and interactive biological heatmaps in a web browser. shinyheatmap is a low memory footprint program, making it particularly well-suited for the interactive visualization of extremely large datasets that cannot typically be computed in-memory due to size restrictions. Conclusions: shinyheatmap is hosted online as a freely available web server with an intuitive graphical user interface: http://shinyheatmap.com. The methods are implemented in R, and are available as part of the shinyheatmap project at: https://github.com/Bohdan-Khomtchouk/shinyheatmap.

More at http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/09/21/076463

Address of the bookmark: http://shinyheatmap.com/

HybPiper

Jit — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 05:02:10 -0500

HybPiper was designed for targeted sequence capture, in which DNA sequencing libraries are enriched for gene regions of interest, especially for phylogenetics. HybPiper is a suite of Python scripts that wrap and connect bioinformatics tools in order to extract target sequences from high-throughput DNA sequencing reads.

Targeted bait capture is a technique for sequencing many loci simultaneously based on bait sequences. HybPiper pipeline starts with high-throughput sequencing reads (for example from Illumina MiSeq), and assigns them to target genes using BLASTx or BWA. The reads are distributed to separate directories, where they are assembled separately using SPAdes. The main output is a FASTA file of the (in frame) CDS portion of the sample for each target region, and a separate file with the translated protein sequence.

HybPiper also includes post-processing scripts, run after the main pipeline, to also extract the intronic regions flanking each exon, investigate putative paralogs, and calculate sequencing depth. For more information, please see our wiki.

HybPiper is run separately for each sample (single or paired-end sequence reads). When HybPiper generates sequence files from the reads, it does so in a standardized directory hierarchy. Many of the post-processing scripts rely on this directory hierarchy, so do not modify it after running the initial pipeline. It is a good idea to run the pipeline for each sample from the same directory. You will end up with one directory per run of HybPiper, and some of the later scripts take advantage of this predictable directory structure.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/mossmatters/HybPiper

SGA: String Graph Assembler

Jit — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 05:08:59 -0600

SGA is a de novo genome assembler based on the concept of string graphs. The major goal of SGA is to be very memory efficient, which is achieved by using a compressed representation of DNA sequence reads.

More at

https://github.com/jts/sga

SGA dependencies:
-google sparse hash library (http://code.google.com/p/google-sparsehash/)
-the bamtools library (https://github.com/pezmaster31/bamtools)
-zlib (http://www.zlib.net/)
-(optional but suggested) the jemalloc memory allocator (http://www.canonware.com/jemalloc/download.html)

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/jts/sga

MeGAMerge: A tool to merge assembled contigs, long reads from metagenomic sequencing runs

Jit — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 09:42:15 -0600

MeGAMerge

MeGAMerge (A tool to merge assembled contigs, long reads from metagenomic sequencing runs)

Description

MeGAMerge is a perl based wrapper/tool that can accept any number of sequence (FASTA) files containing assembled contigs of any length in Multi-FASTA format to produce an improved contig set based on OLC based assembly. All overlap parameters (Minimum Overlap Length, Identity, etc) are user-declarable at runtime. It is written to run on Linux.

Requirements:

You will need to have the following tools installed and in $PATH, or added to $binpath in the tool:

Newbler (specifically runAssembly)
Minimus2 (part of AMOS, also requires MUMmer)

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/LANL-Bioinformatics/MeGAMerge

Software and Tools to detect structure variation with long reads !!

Archana Malhotra — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:31:09 -0500

Uncovering the connection between genetics and heritable diseases requires an approach that looks at all the variant bases and types in a genome. While a PacBio de novo assembly resolves the most novel SV variants. 8-10X PacBio coverage of single genomes or trios reveals triple the SVs detectable by short-read data.

With Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing, you can access structural variations having a broad range of sizes, types, and GC content with the ability to:

Uncover missing heritability linked to structural variation
Unambiguously identify genomic context and variant breakpoints at the sequence level to unravel the genetic etiology of disease
Resolve structural variation across the complete size spectrum with basepair resolution

Following are the SV tools, which can assist you to achieve your goal.

Sniffles: Structural variation caller using third generation sequencing

Sniffles is a structural variation caller using third generation sequencing (PacBio or Oxford Nanopore). It detects all types of SVs using evidence from split-read alignments, high-mismatch regions, and coverage analysis. Please note the current version of Sniffles requires sorted output from BWA-MEM (use -M and -x parameter) or NGM-LR with the optional SAM attributes enabled!

More at https://github.com/fritzsedlazeck/Sniffles

MultiBreak-SV: It identifies structural variants from next-generation paired end data, third-generation long read data, or data from a combination of sequencing platforms.

There are two pieces of software in this release: (1) a pre-processor that takes machineformat (.m5) BLASR files, and (2) MultiBreak-SV. For installation and usage instructions, see doc/MultiBreakSV-Manual.txt.

More at https://github.com/raphael-group/multibreak-sv

Parliament: A Structural Variation Tool. Why ask a single sv-detection approach to find every variant when you can have a parliament of tools deciding?

Publication about the algorithm and “…the first long-read characterization of structural variation in a diploid human personal genome…” (HS1011) - “Assessing structural variation in a personal genome—towards a human reference diploid genome”

More at https://sourceforge.net/projects/parliamentsv/

https://www.dnanexus.com/papers/Parliament_Info_Sheet.pdf

PBHoney: the structural variation discovery tool

PBHoney is an implementation of two variant-identification approaches designed to exploit the high mappability of long reads (i.e., greater than 10,000 bp). PBHoney considers both intra-read discordance and soft-clipped tails of long reads to identify structural variants.

Read The Paper http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/15/180/abstract

More at https://sourceforge.net/projects/pb-jelly/

SMRT-SV: Structural variant and indel caller for PacBio reads

Structural variant (SV) and indel caller for PacBio reads based on methods from Chaisson et al. 2014.

SMRT-SV provides an official software package for tools described in Chaisson et al. 2014 and adds several key features including the following.

Unified variant calling user interface with built-in cluster compute support
Small indel calling (2-49 bp)
Improved inversion calling (screenInversions)
Quality metric for SV calls based on number of local assemblies supporting each call
Higher sensitivity for SV calls using tiled local assemblies across the entire genome instead of "signature" regions
Genotyping of SVs with Illumina paired-end reads from WGS samples

More at https://github.com/EichlerLab/pacbio_variant_caller

Jvarkit : Java utilities for Bioinformatics

Jit — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 09:31:55 -0500

Collection of Java tool kits for bioinformatics works: Jvarkit : Java utilities for Bioinformatics

Address of the bookmark: http://lindenb.github.io/jvarkit/

MAKER

Jitendra Narayan — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 15:59:24 -0600

MAKER is a portable and easily configurable genome annotation pipeline.Its purpose is to allow smaller eukaryotic and prokaryotic genome projects to independently annotate their genomes and to create genome databases. MAKER identifies repeats, aligns ESTs and proteins to a genome, produces ab-initio gene predictions and automatically synthesizes these data into gene annotations having evidence-based quality values.

More at http://www.yandell-lab.org/software/maker.html

Address of the bookmark: http://www.yandell-lab.org/software/maker.html

Computer simulation of genetic mechanism !!

Jit — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 09:29:56 -0500

Computer simulation is the discipline of designing a model of an actual or theoretical physical/biological system, executing the model on a digital computer, and analyzing the execution output. Simulation embodies the principle of ``learning by doing'' --- to learn about the system we must first build a model of some sort and then operate the model. The use of simulation is an activity that is as natural as a child who role plays. Children understand the world around them by simulating (with toys and figurines) most of their interactions with other people, animals and objects. As adults, we lose some of this childlike behavior but recapture it later on through computer simulation. To understand reality and all of its complexity, we must build artificial objects and dynamically act out roles with them. Computer simulation is the electronic equivalent of this type of role playing and it serves to drive synthetic environments and virtual worlds. Within the overall task of simulation, there are three primary sub-fields: model design, model execution and model analysis

Simulation models have become important tools in Bioinformatics studies. There are many reasons for this, but we emphasize three of the more important:

(1) they enable exploration of hypotheses, and as such, have become invaluable means to guide research;

(2) they are unique approaches to integrate (in the literal term of the word) biological knowledge, in the form of experimental results; and

(3) they enable connecting biology with other fields of study ranging from physiology to genomics;

This blog, and this software list, is intended to guide the potential user of simulation models.
It is not, in any way, meant to be comprehensive on the very diverse simulation tools that already exist, but focuses on mechanistic, dynamic models. Similarly, it is not meant to provide any coverage of the breadth of applications; however, for interested readers, we provide references to use as a possible starting point.

Simulation models are meant to answer questions which scientists have in a dynamic, quantitative, and often, a pictorial way. Much of the bioinformatics research and its applications, in particular, involve a large number of components, actors, and factors. Assembling these in a coherent framework may seem a daunting task, especially for beginners, and can lead to confusion, even for experienced scientists, especially if the objectives of such an exercise are not well defined. Followings are the list of tools bioinformatician may use to analyze and provide answers to complex biological mechanisms and related problems.

Software Resource	Brief Description and Homepage
Aladyn	Tools to investigate how demographic parameters, populations genetics and abiotic conditions affect the rate of adaptation http://www.katja-schiffers.eu/research.html
ALF	A Simulation Framework for Genome Evolution http://www.cbrg.ethz.ch/alf
ART	ART is a set of simulation tools to generate synthetic next-generation sequencing data by mimicking real sequencing process with empirical error models or quality profiles. http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/software/biostatistics/art/
BAMSurgeon	Methods for realistic simulation of mutations in real data. https://github.com/adamewing/bamsurgeon
Bayesian Serial SimCoal	Bayesian Serial SimCoal, (BayeSSC) is a modification of SIMCOAL 1.0, a program written by Laurent Excoffier, John Novembre, and Stefan Schneider. http://www.stanford.edu/group/hadlylab/ssc/index.html
BaySICS	An integral platform with a graphical interface for statistical inference based on approximate Bayesian computation. https://sites.google.com/site/baysicsabc/
BEERS	BEERS was designed to benchmark RNA-Seq alignment algorithms and also algorithms that aim to reconstruct different isoforms and alternate splicing from RNA-Seq data http://cbil.upenn.edu/beers/
BOTTLENECK	Bottleneck is a program for detecting recent effective population size reductions from allele data frequencies http://www.ensam.inra.fr/urlb/bottleneck/bottleneck.html
BottleSim	BottleSim is a computer simulation program for simulating the process of population bottlenecks http://chkuo.name/software/bottlesim.html
CASS	Protein Sequence Simulation https://liberles.cst.temple.edu/software/cass/index.html
CDPOP	CDPOP is a landscape genetics tool for simulating the emergence of spatial genetic structure in populations resulting from specified landscape processes governing organism movement behavior. http://cel.dbs.umt.edu/cdpop
Classical Genetics Simulator	Web-based simulation software http://www.cgslab.com/
CoaSim	CoaSim is a tool for simulating the coalescent process with recombination and geneconversion under various demographic models. http://users-birc.au.dk/mailund/coasim/index.html
cosi	The cosi package is written in C and is available as a tar file. http://www.broadinstitute.org/~sfs/cosi/
CS-PSeq-Gen	A program to simulate the evolution of protein sequences under the constraints of the information of a particular reconstructed phylogeny http://bioserv.rpbs.univ-paris-diderot.fr/software/cs-pseq-gen/
DAWG	An application designed to simulate the evolution of recombinant DNA sequences in continuous time http://scit.us/projects/dawg
Easypop	EASYPOP is an individual based model intended to simulate datasets under a very broad range of conditions http://www.unil.ch/dee/en/home/menuinst/softwares--dataset/softwares/easypop.html
EggLib	EggLib is a C++/Python library and program package for evolutionary genetics and genomics. http://egglib.sourceforge.net/
EpiSIM	EpiSIM: simulation of multiple epistasis, linkage disequilibrium patterns and haplotype blocks for genome-wide interaction analysis https://sourceforge.net/projects/episimsimulator/files/
EvolSimulator	A simulation test bed for hypotheses of genome evolution http://acb.qfab.org/acb/evolsim/
EvolveAGene	A realistic coding sequence simulation program that separates mutation from selection and allows the user to set selection conditions http://bellinghamresearchinstitute.com/software/index.html
fastsimcoal	A continuous-‐time coalescent simulator of genomic diversity under arbitrarily complex evolutionary scenarios http://cmpg.unibe.ch/software/fastsimcoal/
FastSLINK	Simulation of Marker and Phenotype Data in Pedigrees https://watson.hgen.pitt.edu/
FFPopSim	C++/Python library for population genetics. http://webdav.tuebingen.mpg.de/ffpopsim/
FLUX SIMULATOR	The Flux Simulator aims at providing a deterministic in silico reproduction of the experimental pipelines for RNA-Seq, employing a minimal set of parameters. http://sammeth.net/confluence/display/sim/home
forqs	Forward-in-time simulation of Recombination, Quantitative Traits, and Selection https://bitbucket.org/dkessner/forqs
ForSim	ForSim: A Forward Evolutionary Computer Simulation http://anth.la.psu.edu/research/weiss-lab/research/research
ForwSim	The program given below is based on the algorithm described in Padhukasahasram et al. 2008 to simulate genetic drift in a standard Wright-Fisher process. http://badri-populationgeneticsimulators.blogspot.com/
FPG	Forward Population Genetic simulation https://bio.cst.temple.edu/~hey/software/software.htm#fpg
FREGENE	FREGENE is a C++ program that simulates sequence-like data over large genomic regions in large diploid populations. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/projects/bargen
FIGG	FIGG is a genome simulation tool that uses known or theorized variation frequency, per a given fragment size and grouped by GC content across a genome to model new genomes in FASTA format while tracking applied mutations for use in analysis http://insilicogenome.sourceforge.net/
fwdpp	A C++ template library for implementing efficient forward simulations. http://molpopgen.github.io/fwdpp/
GAMETES	Genetic Architecture Model Emulator for Testing and Evaluating Software: Simulates complex SNP models with pure, strict epistatic interactions with n-loci. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gametes/?source=navbar
GASP	Genometric Analysis Simulation Program. A software tool for testing and investigating methods in statistical genetics by generating samples of family data based on user specified models. http://research.nhgri.nih.gov/gasp/
GCTA	Genome-wide Complex Trait Analysis http://www.complextraitgenomics.com/software/gcta/download.html
GemSIM	Next generation sequencing read simulator http://sourceforge.net/projects/gemsim/
GeneArtisan	Simulation of Markers in Case-Control Study Designs http://www.rannala.org/?page_id=241
GENOME	A rapid coalescent-based whole genome simulator http://www.sph.umich.edu/csg/liang/genome/
GenomePop2	GenomePop2 is a specialization of the program GenomePop just to manage SNPs under more flexible and useful settings. If you need models with more than 2 alleles please use the GenomePop program version. https://ritchielab.psu.edu/research/research-areas/statistical-genetics-and-gen-epi/methods/genomesimla
GenomeSimla	GenomeSIMLA is currently under development- however, we have a beta release that we are asking to be tested http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/genomesimla/
GENS2	Simulates interactions among two genetic and one environmental factor and also allows for epistatic interactions. https://sourceforge.net/projects/gensim/
GWAsimulator	A rapid whole genome simulation program http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/main/gwasimulator
HAP-SAMPLE	An association simulator for candidate regions or genome scans http://www.hapsample.org/
HAPGEN	A simulator for the simulation of case control datasets at SNP markers https://mathgen.stats.ox.ac.uk/genetics_software/hapgen/hapgen2.html
HapSim	A simulation tool for generating haplotype data with pre-specified allele frequencies and LD coefficients http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/hapsim/index.html
HAPSIMU	A program that simulates heterogeneous populations with various known and controllable structures under the continuous migration model or the discrete model http://l.web.umkc.edu/liujian/
IBDsim	IBDSim is a computer package for the simulation of genotypic data under general isolation by distance models. http://raphael.leblois.free.fr/
indel-Seq-Gen	A biological sequence simulation program that simulates highly divergent DNA sequences and protein superfamilies http://bioinfolab.unl.edu/~cstrope/isg/
Indelible	A powerful and flexible simulator of biological evolution http://abacus.gene.ucl.ac.uk/software/indelible/
invertFREGENE	InvertFREGENE is a forward-in-time simulator of inversions in population genetic data http://www.ebi.ac.uk/projects/bargen/
kernalPop	A spatially explicit population genetic simulation engine http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/archive/kernelpop/
MaCS	Markovian Coalescent Simulator http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~garykche/
Marlin	Marlin provides a user-friendly interface for performing forward-in-time population genetic simulations. http://www.patrickmeirmans.com/software/marlin.html
Mason	A package for the simulation of nucleotide data. http://www.seqan.de/projects/mason/
mbs	modifying Hudson's ms software to generate samples of DNA sequences with a biallelic site under selection http://www.sendou.soken.ac.jp/esb/innan/innanlab/software.html
Mendel's Accountant	Mendel's Accountant (MENDEL) is an advanced numerical simulation program for modeling genetic change over time and was developed collaboratively by Sanford, Baumgardner, Brewer, Gibson and ReMine http://mendelsaccount.sourceforge.net/
MetaPopGen	Simulates genetics in large size metapopulations https://sites.google.com/site/marcoandrello/metapopgen
MetaSim	A tool to generate collections of synthetic reads that reflect the diverse taxonomical composition of typical metagenome data sets http://ab.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/software/metasim/
mlcoalsim	Multilocus Coalescent Simulations http://code.google.com/p/mlcoalsim-v1/
ms	The purpose of this program is to allow one to investigate the statistical properties of such samples, to evaluate estimators or statistical tests, and generally to aid in the interpretation of polymorphism data sets. http://home.uchicago.edu/~rhudson1/source/mksamples.html
msHOT	The purpose of this program is to allow one to investigate the statistical properties of such samples, to evaluate estimators or statistical tests, and generally to aid in the interpretation of polymorphism data sets. http://home.uchicago.edu/~rhudson1/
msms	A coalescent Simlation tool with selection. http://www.mabs.at/ewing/msms/index.shtml
MySSP	A program for the simulation of DNA sequence evolution across a phylogenetic tree http://www.rosenberglab.net/software.html
Nemo	A forward-time, individual-based, genetically explicit, and stochastic simulation program designed to study the evolution of genetic markers, life history traits, and phenotypic traits in a flexible (meta-)population framework. http://nemo2.sourceforge.net/
NetRecodon	Coalescent simulation of coding DNA sequences with recombination (inter and intracodon), migration and demography http://code.google.com/p/netrecodon/
OncoSimulR	BioConductor package for Forward Genetic Simulation of Cancer Progresion with Epistasis https://github.com/rdiaz02/oncosimul
PEDAGOG	Software for simulating eco-evolutionary population dynamics https://bcrc.bio.umass.edu/pedigreesoftware/node/5
phenosim	A tool to add phenotypes to simulated genotypes http://evoplant.uni-hohenheim.de/doku.php?id=software:software
PhyloSim	An R package for the Monte Carlo simulation of sequence evolution http://www.ebi.ac.uk/goldman-srv/phylosim/
pIRS	Profile-based Illumina pair-end reads simulator https://code.google.com/p/pirs/
ProteinEvolver	Simulation of protein evolution along phylogenies under structure-based substitution models http://code.google.com/p/proteinevolver/
QMSim	QTL and Marker Simulator http://www.aps.uoguelph.ca/~msargol/qmsim/
quantiNEMO	An individual-based program for the analysis of quantitative traits with explicit genetic architecture potentially under selection in a structured population http://www2.unil.ch/popgen/softwares/quantinemo/
RECOAL	Simulates new haplotype data from a reference population of haplotypes. ftp://popgen.usc.edu/
Recodon	Coalescent simulation of coding DNA sequences with recombination, migration and demography http://code.google.com/p/recodon/
rlsim	A package for simulating RNA-seq library preparation with parameter estimation http://bit.ly/rlsim-git
Rmetasim	Rmetasim is a front-end for the metasim engine that is implemented as a package that runs in the statistical computing environment R http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rmetasim/index.html
RNA Seq Simulator	RSS takes SAM alignment files from RNA-Seq data and simulates over dispersed, multiple replica, differential, non-stranded RNA-Seq datasets. http://useq.sourceforge.net/cmdlnmenus.html#rnaseqsimulator
Rose	Random model of sequence evolution http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/rose/
scrm	A coalescent simulator optimized for long sequences and large samples. https://scrm.github.io/
SelSim	SelSim is a program for Monte Carlo simulation of DNA polymorphism data for a recom- bining region within which a single bi-allelic site has experienced natural selection http://www.well.ox.ac.uk/~spencer/selsim/
Seq-Gen	An application for the Monte Carlo simulation of molecular sequence evolution along phylogenetic trees. http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/seqgen/
SEQPower	Statistical power analysis for sequence-based association studies http://bioinformatics.org/spower/
SeqSIMLA	SeqSIMLA can simulate sequence data with user-specified disease and quantitative trait models. Family or unrelated case-control data can be simulated. http://seqsimla.sourceforge.net/
Serial NetEvolve	A flexible utility for generating serially-sampled sequences along a tree or recombinant network http://biorg.cis.fiu.edu/sne/
SFS_CODE	SFS_CODE can perform forward population genetic simulations under a general Wright-Fisher model with arbitrary migration, demographic, selective, and mutational effects. http://sfscode.sourceforge.net/sfs_code/index/index.html
SIBSIM	Quantitative phenotype simulation in extended pedigrees http://sourceforge.net/projects/sibsim/
SimAdapt	A spatially explicit, individual-based, forward-time, landscape-genetic simulation model combined with a landscape cellular automaton. https://www.openabm.org/model/3137
SIMCOAL2	A coalescent program for the simulation of complex recombination patterns over large genomic regions under various demographic models http://cmpg.unibe.ch/software/simcoal2/
SimCopy	An R package simulating the evolution of copy number profiles along a tree. http://bit.ly/simcopy
SIMLA	SIMLA is a SIMuLAtion program that generates data sets of families for use in Linkage and Association studies. http://dmpi.duke.edu/simla-simulation-software-version-32
SimPed	A Simulation Program to Generate Haplotype and Genotype Data for Pedigree Structures http://bioinformatics.org/simped/
Simprot	A program to simulate protein evolution by substitution, insertion and deletion http://www.uhnresearch.ca/labs/tillier/software.htm#3
SimRare	Rare variant simulation and analysis tool http://code.google.com/p/simrare/
simuGWAS	A forward-time simulator that simulates realistic samples for genome-wide association studies. http://simupop.sourceforge.net/cookbook/simugwas
simuPOP	simuPOP is a general-purpose individual-based forward-time population genetics simulation environment. http://simupop.sourceforge.net/
SISSI	A software tool to generate data of related sequences along a given phylogeny, taking into account user defined system of neighbourhoods and instantaneous rate matrices. http://www.cibiv.at/software/sissi/
SMARTPOP	Simulating Mating Alliance as a Reproductive Tactic for Populations http://smartpop.sourceforge.net/
SNPsim	Coalescent simulation of hotspot recombination http://code.google.com/p/phylosoftware/
SPIP	SPIP simulates the transmission of genes from parents to offspring in a population having demographic structure defined by the user http://swfsc.noaa.gov/textblock.aspx?division=fed&id=3434
Splatche	Spatial and Temporal Coalescences in Heterogeneous Environment http://www.splatche.com/
srv	Simulator of Rare Varaints (srv) is a simulator for the simulation of the introduction and evolution of (rare) genetic variants. http://simupop.sourceforge.net/cookbook/simurarevariants
SUP	SLINK/FastSLINK utility program http://mlemire.freeshell.org/software.html
TreesimJ	A flexible, forward-time population genetic simulator http://code.google.com/p/treesimj/
Variant Simulation Tools	A simulation tool for post-GWAS genetic epidemiological studies using whole-genome or whole-exome next-gen sequencing data, with an emphasis on user-friendliness and reproducibility. http://varianttools.sourceforge.net/simulation/homepage
Vortex	VORTEX is an individual-based simulation model for population viability analysis (PVA). http://www.vortex9.org/vortex.html
Wessim	Whole Exome Sequencing SIMulator http://sak042.github.io/wessim/