Editing Biopython (section)

=== Population genetics ===

The Bio.PopGen module adds support to Biopython for Genepop, a software package for statistical analysis of population genetics.<ref name="Rousset2008">{{cite journal |last=Rousset |first=François |date=January 2008 |title=GENEPOP'007: a complete re-implementation of the GENEPOP software for Windows and Linux |journal=Molecular Ecology Resources |volume=8 |issue=1 |doi=10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01931.x |pmid=21585727 |pages=103–106|bibcode=2008MolER...8..103R |s2cid=25776992 }}</ref>  This allows for analyses of [[Hardy–Weinberg principle|Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium]], [[linkage disequilibrium]] and other features of a population's [[Allele frequency|allele frequencies]].

This module can also carry out population genetic simulations using [[coalescent theory]] with the fastsimcoal2 program.<ref name="Excoffier2011">{{cite journal |last1=Excoffier |first1=Laurent |last2=Foll |first2=Matthieu |date=1 March 2011 |title=fastsimcoal: a continuous-time coalescent simulator of genomic diversity under arbitrarily complex evolutionary scenarios |journal=Bioinformatics |volume=27 |issue=9 |doi=10.1093/bioinformatics/btr124 |pages=1332–1334 |pmid=21398675|doi-access=free }}</ref>