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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Ecol Resour. 2016 Nov 16;17(1):101–109. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12607

Figure 1. An outline of the steps required to undertake a population genetic simulation study, and the sources of information and support available to the user when using skeleSim versus the standalone metasim or fastsimcoal software.

Figure 1

Using the R platform, skeleSim provides centralized support for the user throughout the decision-making and technical steps involved in a population genetic simulation study. Furthermore, skeleSim enables the validity of a population genetic scenario to be checked early (indicated by * and retrograde arrows), avoiding considerable time investment in unnecessary data formatting, analysis and visualization.