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. 2008 Apr;178(4):2417–2427. doi: 10.1534/genetics.107.085332

TABLE 2.

Approximate run times for forward simulation programs and average value of summary statistics for forward and coalescent simulation programs

Timee
2Na Generations ub rc FORWSIMd FREGENEf FPGg msh Len (Mb)
a. Approximate run times for forward simulation programs
100 1,000 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.06 1.61 0.006 0.05
100 1,000 0.10 0.10 0.04 0.08 2.09 0.006 0.05
100 1,000 0.25 0.25 0.05 0.11 2.89 0.0075 0.05
1,000 10,000 0.01 0.01 1.74 4.71 265.06 0.006 0.05
1,000 10,000 0.10 0.10 2.85 18.50 450.90 0.035 1.00
1,000 10,000 0.25 0.25 6.51 43.79 1136.29 0.367 1.00
10,000 100,000 0.01 0.01 281.42 2241.59 45868.58 0.023 1.00
10,000 100,000 0.10 0.10 1153.41 13620.02 8.701 10.00
10,000 100,000 0.25 0.25 4470.48 34825.89 40.663 50.00
FORWSIM
FREGENE
FPG
msh
2N Generations u r E[S]i E[H]j E[S] E[H] E[S] E[H] E[S] E[H]
b. Average value of summary statistics for forward and coalescent simulation programs
1,000 10,000 0.01 0.01 71.250 16.066 69.637 16.242 71.551 16.078 71.016 15.916
1,000 10,000 0.10 0.10 708.614 19.612 704.071 19.635 708.089 19.656 706.603 19.538
a

Total number of chromosomes under the standard neutral Wright–Fisher model with constant population size and with uniform mutation and recombination rates.

b

Per-generation per-sequence mutation rate.

c

Per-generation per-sequence recombination rate.

d

FORWSIM is our C++ program freely available at http://people.cornell.edu/pages/bp85.

e

Time taken in seconds for a single run on a 2.2 Ghz 64-bit AMD processor machine with 8 GB of RAM.

f

FREGENE is a C++ program freely available at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/projects/BARGEN/download/FREGEN/fregeneweb.html.

g

FPG is a C program freely available at http://lifesci.rutgers.edu/∼heylab/ProgramsandData/Programs/FPG/FPG_Documentation.htm#FilesinthisPackage. For FPG, the number of chromosome segments was always fixed at 500.

h

ms is a C program that simulates data sets under the coalescent framework and is freely available at http://home.uchicago.edu/∼rhudson1/source.html. ms was run with population crossing-over rate ρ = 4Nr and population mutation rate θ = 4Nu and sample size of 20. (For details about ms, see Hudson 2002.)

i

Total number of SNPs for a sample size of 20 chromosomes. Average values are based on 1000 simulations.

j

Number of distinct haplotypes. Average values are based on a sample of 20 chromosomes and 1000 simulations.