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Authors: Benjamin C. Haller, Philipp W. Messer
Abstract: Individual-based, genetically-explicit modeling is an essential tool for connecting empirical population genetic patterns to hypotheses about evolutionary process. For example, such models can help answer questions about past demographic history, the forces of spatial and temporal selection acting on a population, and the genetic architecture underlying traits. SLiM 2 is a software package that makes constructing and running these models easy. SLiM models are extremely scriptable, allowing a huge diversity of models to be implemented, and they can run on both Linux and macOS, including on computing clusters for maximal performance. On macOS an interactive modeling environment, SLiMgui, is provided for rapid model development and graphical debugging; this can also make a great teaching tool for interactive labs in population genetics. Since I have presented SLiM in the past, this year I will focus on features that are new in SLiM 2.3: continuous-space models, spatial interactions, and landscape maps.