Changelogs

[0.2.0] - 2022-11-01

Major feature release adding many new species and models, as well as support for simulating selection via SLiM.

Bug fixes:

• Parameters in the HomSap/Zigzag_1S14 model now match those in Schiffels & Durbin (2014) (@grahamgower, #750).

• Recombination rate for DroMel chr4 changed to 0 (@izabelcavassim, #1092).

• Per-chromosome mean recombination rates for HomSap were incorrectly calculated (@nspope, #1345).

Breaking changes:

• Removed GeneticMap class from public API (@jeromekelleher, #713).

• Samples are now specified via population/individual pairs, using species/chromosome ploidy. The old API for specifying haploid samples via population index has been retained, but is deprecated and will be removed at some point (@nspope, #1361).

New species:

• Aedes aegypti (@manolofperez, #871). QC’d by @petrelharp, #893.

• Anas platyrhynchos (@petrelharp, #826). QC’d by @igronau, #1070.

• Anolis carolinensis (@vcaudill, #874). QC’d by @andrewkern, #896.

• Anopheles gambiae (@andrewkern, #856). QC’d by @petrelharp, #906.

• Apis mellifera (@janaobsteter, #1025). QC’d by @manolofperez, #1268.

• Bos taurus (@grahamgower, #600). QC’d by @gtsambos, #1269.

• Caenorhabditis elegans (@attrna, #910). QC’d by @chriscrsmith, #1265.

• Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (@aays, #863). QC’d by @izabelcavassim, #1067.

• Drosophila sechellia (@jradrion, #872). QC’d by @vitorpavinato, #1264.

• Gasterosteus aculeatus (@vitorpavinato, #1105). QC’d by @manolofperez, #1253.

• Helianthus annuus (@chriscrsmith, #1218). QC’d by @xin-huang, #1250.

• Heliconius melpomene (@percyfal, #870). QC’d by @noscode, #1165.

• Pan troglodytes (@xin-huang, #1215). QC’d by @janaobsteter, #1291.

• Papio anubis (@saurabhbelsare, #1216). QC’d by @mufernando, #1263.

• Streptococcus agalactiae (@jeanrjc, #854). QC’d by @vitorpavinato, #1251.

New models:

• AnaPla/MallardBlackDuck_2L19 (@petrelharp, #883). QC’d by @igronau, #1021.

• AnoGam/GabonAg1000G_1A17 (@andrewkern, #856). QC’d by @petrelharp, #1279.

• BosTau/HolsteinFriesian_1M13 (@grahamgower, #600). QC’d by @igronau, #1272.

• HomSap/OutOfAfricaExtendedNeandertalAdmixturePulse_3I21 (@leonardolasi, #1066). QC’d by @awohns, #1259.

• HomSap/OutOfAfrica_4J17 (@rwaples, #726). QC’d by @jeffspence, #1246.

• HomSap/Africa_1B08 (@izabelcavassim, #993). QC’d by @petrelharp, #995.

• HomSap/AncientEurope_4A21 (@alipearson, #941). QC’d by @mufernando, #1256.

• PanTro/BonoboGhost_4K19 (@xin-huang, #1215). QC’d by @kuhlwilm, #1370.

• PapAnu/SinglePopSMCpp_1W22 (@saurabhbelsare, #1216). QC’d by @attrna, #1261.

New genetic maps:

• CaeEle/RockmanRIAIL_ce11 (@attrna, #910).

• DroMel/ComeronCrossoverV2_dm6 liftover (@grahamgower, #592).

• HomSap/HapMapII_GRCh38 liftover (@saurabhbelsare, #1301).

• HomSap/DeCodeSexAveraged_GRCh38 liftover (@saurabhbelsare, #1301).

• HomSap/PyrhoXXX_GRCh38 (@jeffspence, #572 and #575), for XXX in ACB, ASW, BEB, CDX, CEU, CHB, CHS, CLM, ESN, FIN, GBR, GIH, GWD, IBS, ITU, JPT, KHV, LWK, MSL, MXL, PEL, PJL, PUR, STU, TSI, and YRI.

• PapAnu/Pyrho_PAnubis1_0 (@saurabhbelsare, #1216)

New features:

• Distributions of fitness effects (“DFEs”) defined over genomic intervals (@mufernando, #644; @izabelcavassim, #1002; plus numerous others).

• DFE simulation via SLiM (@mufernando, #930; plus numerous others).

• Metadata for tree sequences produced by SLiM (@mufernando, #1152).

• Per-generation fitness statistics for SLiM simulations (@petrelharp, #1200).

• Selective sweep simulation and allele frequency conditioning via SLiM (@grahamgower, #462; @nspope, #1341).

• Gene conversion simulation via msprime and SLiM (@fbaumdicker, #1106; @petrelharp, #1355).

• Genome annotation tracks (@andrewkern, #560 and #960).

• Masking intervals in simulated data (@apragsdale, #664).

• Method to get generic contig of arbitrary length for a species (@apragsdale, #664).

• Method to get contig from a segment of a named chromosome (@nspope, #1348).

• Pass keyworded arguments from simulation engine to msprime (@awohns, #736).

• Use msprime 1.0 for simulation from msprime engine (@jeromekelleher, #764).

• Use SLiM 4.0 for simulation from SLiM engine (@petrelharp, #1326).

• Mutation rates can be stored in catalog models (@apragsdale, #839).

• Ploidy is a species and chromosome attribute (@nspope, #1361).

• Mutations from SLiM simulations converted to nucleotides (@nspope, #1356).

• Various improvements and fixes to the documentation and error messaging.

Additions to CLI:

• Sample specification has switched from positional and haploid (e.g. stdpopsim HomSap -d OutOfAfrica_3G09 6 0 10) to named with species-specific ploidy (equivalent to stdpopsim HomSap -d OutOfAfrica_3G09 YRI:3 CEU:0 CHB:5). Positional sample specification is still supported but will raise a deprecation warning.

• Arguments --dfe, --dfe-interval, --dfe-bed-file, --help-dfe for specifying DFEs (@izabelcavassim, #1052).

• Arguments --help-annotations, --dfe-annotation for associating annotation tracks with DFEs (@andrewkern, #1117).

• Argument --length for simulating from a generic contig (@apragsdale, #664).

• Arguments --inclusion-mask, --exclusion-mask for masking simulated sequences (@apragsdale, #664).

• Arguments --left and --right for simulating an interval on a named chromosome (@nspope, #1348)

• Argument --keep-mutation-ids-as-alleles retains SLiM mutation IDs for allele codes instead of converting these to nucleotides (@nspope, #1356).

Catalog maintenance infrastructure:

• Quality control infrastructure for DFEs (@xin-huang, #1292).

• Pull species information from NCBI (@andrewkern, #875).

• Automated species addition to catalog (@jeromekelleher, #790).

• Github issue template for requesting addition of species (@petrelharp, #772).

• Tools for assembly liftover (@jradrion, #574).

• Pull genome data from Ensembl (@jeromekelleher, #563).

New annotations:

• AraTha/araport_11 (@andrewkern, #1327).

• DroMel/FlyBase_BDGP6.32.51 (@andrewkern, #1042).

• HomSap/ensembl_havana_104 (@andrewkern, #960).

New DFEs:

• DroMel/Gamma_H17 (@izabelcavassim, #1046).

• DroMel/LognormalPlusPositive_R16 (@apragsdale, #1178).

• HomSap/Gamma_K17 (@izabelcavassim, #1002).

• HomSap/Gamma_H17 (@chriscrsmith, #1099).

[0.1.2] - 2020-05-29

Important bugfix and feature release, recommended for all users.

Significant errors in the HomSap/OutOfAfrica_3G09 and HomSap/OutOfAfrica_2T12 models have been fixed. We recommend repeating any analyses performed using these models. See here for more details on the error in the three population Out of Africa model and analysis of the differences from the correct model.

The recombination rate for AraTha was also off by a factor of 10. We recommend repeating any analyses performed using this species.

Bug fixes:

• Fix error in HomSap/OutOfAfrica_3G09 model, in which migration between ancestral African and European populations was allowed to continue in the most ancient time period (@apragsdale, #496, #516).

• Fix similar error in HomSap/OutOfAfrica_2T12 model (@ndukler, #520, #516).

• Fix recombination rate estimate for AraTha (@grahamgower, #537, #527), which was off by a factor of 10.

• Require attrs >=19.10 (@grahamgower, #399, #394)

New species:

• Canis familiaris (@grahamgower, #375).

• Pongo abelii (@apragsdale, #363).

New models:

• HomSap/PapuansOutOfAfrica_10J19 model (@grahamgower, #372). QC’d by @noscode, #387.

• HomSap/AshkSub_7G19 model (@agladstein, #494). QC’d by @ndukler, #536.

New features:

• SLiM simulation engine (@grahamgower, #409, plus numerous others. See e.g. #132 and #133 for background.)

• Support for DTWF, SMC, and SMC’ models in msprime engine (@grahamgower, #398, #392).

• Warnings for users running simulations on non-autosomes (@grahamgower, #407).

• Migrate all genetic map data to AWS (@ndukler, #514, #335)

• Warnings for users running simulations on non QC’d models (@grahamgower, #525).

• Add generation_time (default=1) attribute to generic models (@grahamgower, #477, #471).

• Various documentation and citation improvements.

Breaking changes:

• Move the –quiet/-q command line option to the top-level. Previously we would write stdpopsim HomSap -q 10 whereas we now write stdpopsim -q HomSap. (@jeromekelleher, #515, #547)

• The long form --verbosity argument has been changed to --verbose (#547).

• Removed DroMel chrM (@grahamgower, #528, #405).

[0.1.1] - 2020-01-02

Bugfix release. Fixes some distribution issues and temporarily removes the PonPyg species.

Bug fixes:

• Pin the msprime and attrs packages to resolve some distribution problems (#366; @jgallowa07 and @gtsambos).

New features:

• Provide citations for the genome assembly (#359, #360; @andrewkern and @grahamgower).

Breaking changes:

• Temporarily remove the PonPyg species from the catalog to provide time to fix issues with genomes and multi-species models (#365).

[0.1.0] - 2019-12-18

Initial release.