Skip to Content
Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook
book

Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook

by Tiago Antao
June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
306 pages
6h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook

Chapter 5. Population Genetics Simulation

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Introducing forward-time simulations
  • Simulating selection
  • Simulating population structure using island and stepping-stone models
  • Modeling complex demographic scenarios
  • Simulating the coalescent with Biopython and fastsimcoal

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we used Python to analyze population genetics datasets based on real data. In this chapter, we will see how to use Python to simulate population genetics data. From teaching to developing new statistical methods or to analyze the performance of existing methods, simulated datasets have plenty of applications.

There are two kinds of simulation. One is coalescent simulation that goes backwards in time. ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook - Second Edition

Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook - Second Edition

Tiago Antao

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781782175117