title: MODELER4SIMCOAL2: a user-friendly, extensible modeler of demography and linked loci for coalescent simulations.
abstract: MODELER4SIMCOAL2 (M4S2) is an extensible graphical tool to model linked loci and population demographies. M4S2 is easy to use, allowing for the modeling of complicated scenarios, making coalescent simulation modeling accessible to biologists with limited computer skills. The software includes an extension system allowing for new models to be created, published and downloaded from the Internet.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  M4S2 is available from http://popgen.eu/soft/m4s2 under a GPL license. The web site also contains guides, screen shots and tutorials.
authors.affiliation: CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, Portugal. tra@fc.up.pt
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Antao
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Beja-Pereira
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Luikart
mesh_terms: D001695:Biology / Q000379:methods; D002875:Chromosomes / Q000648:ultrastructure; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003710:Demography; D005828:Genetics, Population / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005838:Genotype; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface