title: PopABC: a program to infer historical demographic parameters.
abstract: PopABC is a computer package for inferring the pattern of demographic divergence of closely related populations and species. The software performs coalescent simulation in the framework of approximate Bayesian computation (ABC). PopABC can also be used to perform Bayesian model choice to discriminate between different demographic scenarios. The program can be used either for research or for education and teaching purposes.
  
  
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  Source code and binaries are freely available at http://www.reading.ac.uk/ approximately sar05sal/software.htm. The program was implemented in C and can run on UNIX, MacOSX and Windows operating systems.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 228, Reading RG66AJ, UK. joao.lopes@reading.ac.uk
authors.forename: Joao S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Lopes
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Balding
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Beaumont
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003710:Demography; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005828:Genetics, Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012984:Software