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Trevolver: simulating non-reversible DNA sequence evolution in trinucleotide context on a bifurcating tree

Nelson, C. W.; Fu, Y.-X.; Li, W.-H.

2019-06-18 evolutionary biology
10.1101/672717 bioRxiv
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SummaryRecent de novo mutation data allow the estimation of non-reversible mutation rates for trinucleotide sequence contexts. However, existing tools for simulating DNA sequence evolution are limited to time-reversible models or do not consider trinucleotide context-dependent rates. As this ability is critical to testing evolutionary scenarios under neutrality, we created Trevolver. Sequence evolution is simulated on a bifurcating tree using a 64 x 4 trinucleotide mutation model. Runtime is fast and results match theoretical expectation for CpG sites. Simulations with Trevolver will enable neutral hypotheses to be tested at within-species (polymorphism), between-species (divergence), within-host (e.g., viral evolution), and somatic (e.g., cancer) levels of evolutionary change.\n\nAvailability and ImplementationTrevolver is implemented in Perl and available on GitHub under GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 at https://github.com/chasewnelson/trevolver.\n\nContactcnelson@amnh.org\n\nSupplementary informationFurther details and example data are available on GitHub.

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