Introduction

This is the documentation for stdvoidsim, a library of population genetic simulation models for Lovecraftian entities and eldritch horrors.

stdvoidsim is a fork of stdpopsim that replaces real-world species with 40 fictional creatures from H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Each species has made-up but population-genetically plausible genomes and demographic models suitable for testing inference methods on non-standard scenarios.

Under the hood, stdvoidsim relies on msprime and SLiM 4 to generate sample datasets in the tree sequence format.

First steps

• Head to the Installation page to get stdvoidsim installed on your computer.

• Skim the Catalog to see what eldritch simulations are currently supported by stdvoidsim.

• Read the Tutorials to see some examples of stdvoidsim in action.

Citations

stdvoidsim is built on the stdpopsim framework. If you use the simulation framework, please cite:

• Jeffrey R Adrion et al. (2020), A community-maintained standard library of population genetic models, eLife 9:e54967; doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.54967

• M Elise Lauterbur et al. (2023), Expanding the stdvoidsim species catalog, and lessons learned for realistic genome simulations, eLife 12:RP84874; doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84874

Licence and usage

stdvoidsim is available under the GPLv3 public license. The terms of this license can be read here.