title: Coala: an R framework for coalescent simulation.
abstract: Simulation programs based on the coalescent efficiently generate genetic data according to a given model of evolution. We present coala, an R package for calling coalescent simulators with a unified syntax. It can execute simulations with several programs, calculate additional summary statistics and combine multiple simulations to create biologically more realistic data.
  
  
  
  The package is publicly available on CRAN and on https://github.com/statgenlmu/coala under the conditions of the MIT license.
  
  
  
  metzler@bio.lmu.de.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried 82152, Germany.
authors.forename: Paul R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Staab
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried 82152, Germany.
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Metzler
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005828:Genetics, Population; D008957:Models, Genetic; D012984:Software