PopABC: a program to infer historical demographic parameters

Bioinformatics. 2009 Oct 15;25(20):2747-9. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp487. Epub 2009 Aug 13.

Abstract

PopABC is a computer package for inferring the pattern of demographic divergence of closely related populations and species. The software performs coalescent simulation in the framework of approximate Bayesian computation (ABC). PopABC can also be used to perform Bayesian model choice to discriminate between different demographic scenarios. The program can be used either for research or for education and teaching purposes.

Availability and implementation: Source code and binaries are freely available at http://www.reading.ac.uk/ approximately sar05sal/software.htm. The program was implemented in C and can run on UNIX, MacOSX and Windows operating systems.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Demography*
  • Evolution, Molecular
  • Genetics, Population / statistics & numerical data
  • Software*