Introduction

This is the documentation for stdgrimmsim, a library of population genetic simulation models for German folklore, fairy tales, and mythology.

stdgrimmsim is a fork of stdvoidsim/stdpopsim that provides 32 species from German-speaking folklore: dwarves (Zwerge), water spirits (Nix), mountain spirits (Rübezahl), Frau Holle, the Loreley, Black Forest spirits, Bavarian (Wolpertinger, Berchta, Moosweib), Prussian (Puk, East Prussian Baltic, Masurian lakes), Saxony (Erzgebirge), Pomerania, Bremen musicians, and more. Each species has made-up but population-genetically plausible genomes and 150 demographic models tied to geographic regions (Bavaria, Prussia, Rhine, Harz, Schwarzwald, Thuringia, etc.).

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

First steps

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

• Skim the Catalog to see what folklore simulations are currently supported by stdgrimmsim.

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

Citations

stdgrimmsim 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 stdgrimmsim species catalog, and lessons learned for realistic genome simulations, eLife 12:RP84874; doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84874

Licence and usage

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