GSR: Simulator - ALF
Attribute | Value |
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Title | ALF |
Short Description | A Simulation Framework for Genome Evolution |
Long Description | Artificial Life Framework (ALF) aims at simulating the entire range of evolutionary forces that act on genomes: nucleotide, codon, or amino acid substitution (under simple or mixture models), indels, GC-content amelioration, gene duplication, gene loss, gene fusion, gene fission, genome rearrangement, lateral gene transfer (LGT), or speciation. ALF is available as a stand-alone application and a user-friendly yet powerful web interface. |
Version | 0.93 |
Project Started | 2012 |
Last Release | 12 years, 3 months ago |
Homepage | http://alfsim.org/#index |
Citations | Dalquen DA, Anisimova M, Gonnet GH, Dessimoz C, ALF--a simulation framework for genome evolution., Mol Biol Evol, 04-01-2012 [ Abstract, cited in PMC ] |
GSR Certification | Accessibility |
Last evaluated | 11-10-2017 (2346 days ago) |
Attribute Category | Attribute |
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Target | |
Type of Simulated Data | Haploid DNA Sequence, Protein Sequence, |
Variations | Biallelic Marker, Single Nucleotide Variation, Amino acid variation, Insertion and Deletion, Inversion and Rearrangement (Translocation, inversion, inverted translocation), Other (Gc content amelioration, gene duplication/loss, lateral gene transfer, gene fusion/fission), |
Simulation Method | Phylogenetic, |
Input | |
Data Type | Ancestral Sequence, Other (The user can provide a custom species tree, custom substitution matrices, definitions of regions with different substitution rates), |
File format | Program Specific (Parameter file in darwin format ), Other (Sequences of mrca can be given in fasta format), |
Output | |
Data Type | Genotype or Sequence, Individual Relationship (Orthologs, paralogs, xenologs, gene trees, msas, phylogenetic tree), |
Sequencing Reads | |
File Format | Fasta or Fastq, Phylip (Msas), Other (Gene trees and species tree in newick format), |
Sample Type | Other (Ancestral sequences at each speciation event are outputted), |
Phenotype | |
Trait Type | |
Determinants | |
Evolutionary Features | |
Demographic | |
Population Size Changes | |
Gene Flow | |
Spatiality | |
Life Cycle | |
Mating System | |
Fecundity | |
Natural Selection | |
Determinant | |
Models | |
Recombination | |
Mutation Models | Markov DNA Evolution Models, Codon and Amino Acid Models, Indels and Others (Gene duplication/loss, horizontal gene transfer), Heterogeneity among Sites, Others (Gc amelioration, gene fusion and fission, genome rearrangement), |
Events Allowed | Varying Genetic Features (Change of mutation rates after gene duplication, different substitution and indel models for each branch of the phylogenetic tree, rate vary), |
Other | |
Interface | Command-line, Web-based, |
Development | |
Tested Platforms | Mac OS X, Linux and Unix, |
Language | Other (Darwin), |
License | |
GSR Certification | Documentation, Application, |
Number of Primary Citations: 1
Number of Non-Primary Citations: 2
The following 2 publications are selected examples of applications that used ALF.
2022
Briand S, Dessimoz C, El-Mabrouk N, Nevers Y, A Linear Time Solution to the Labeled Robinson-Foulds Distance Problem., Syst Biol, 10-12-2022 [Abstract]
Dylus D, Altenhoff A, Majidian S, Sedlazeck FJ, Dessimoz C, Read2Tree: scalable and accurate phylogenetic trees from raw reads., bioRxiv, 12-13-2022 [Abstract]