simuPOP

simuPOP is a general-purpose individual-based forward-time population genetics simulation environment. Please refer to the simuPOP homepage https://bopeng.github.io/simuPOP/ for details.

Installation

simuPOP is distributed under a GPL3 license. Starting from simuPOP 1.1.8, it supports only Python 3 (3.9 and up) on Windows, macOS and Linux systems.

Install from conda-forge

simuPOP is part of the conda-forge. If you use Anaconda Python 3, you can install simuPOP with command

conda install -c conda-forge simuPOP

Install from PyPI

pip install simuPOP

Install from source

If you are working with a development version of simuPOP or an unsupported platform, you can install from source:

git clone https://github.com/BoPeng/simuPOP.git
cd simuPOP
pip install .

Please refer to INSTALL for detailed instructions and platform-specific requirements.

Documentation

The user guide and reference manual of simuPOP is available at http://bopeng.github.io/simuPOP/. simuPOP is also introduced in the following two books:

Forward-Time Population Genetics Simulations: Methods, Implementation, and Applications by Bo Peng, Marek Kimmel and Christopher I Amos, published by Wiley & Sons Inc, and available at Amazon and other bookstores.
Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook by Tiago Antao, available at Amazon

Change Log since 1.1.7

simuPOP 1.1.18

Modernize build system: migrate from setup.py to CMake + scikit-build-core (PEP 517 compliant)
Add multi-platform CI testing (Linux, macOS, Windows)
Move simuOpt module into the simuPOP package. Use from simuPOP.simuOpt import setOptions instead of from simuOpt import setOptions. The old import path still works but is deprecated.

simuPOP 1.1.17

Fix compatibility with Python 3.13 and latest version of Xcode on mac.

simuPOP 1.1.16

#103 Fix compatibility with recent compilers with c++17 support, and fix conda-forge release.

simuPOP 1.1.15

#122 Fix compatibility with Visual Studio 2022 under windows.

simuPOP 1.1.14

#114 Fix compatibility with Python 3.11.

simuPOP 1.1.13

#114 Allow negative weight of a heterogeneous mating scheme to generate less individuals than calculated.

simuPOP 1.1.12

#102: Fix compatibility issues with Python 3.11
#98: Write banner messaged to stderr insted of stdout

simuPOP 1.1.11

#94: Fix HeteroMating when being used in a ConditionalMating mating scheme.
#93: Add function form of selection operators such as maSelect (for MapSelector) and mlSelect (for MlSelector).

simuPOP 1.1.10

#70: Fix compatibility with Mac OS using libc++ instead of libstdc++.

simuPOP 1.1.9

#28: Fix a segmentation fault when providing a non-existent VSP index
#31: Allow operator DiscardIf to accept a probability in addition to True/False
#35: Add a weightBy parameter to allow HeteroMating to produce offspring subpopulation with weights determined by not only the size of the parental subpopulation, but also by for example number of mating pairs.
#49: Fix output of loci positions in MS and other formats.

Metadata

Release files for simuPOP 1.1.18

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Built distribution (wheel)

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