AlphaSimR : an R package for breeding program simulations

Gaynor, Robert Chris (author), Gorjanc, Gregor (author), Hickey, John M. (author)

This paper introduces AlphaSimR, an R package for stochastic simulations of plant and animal breeding programs. AlphaSimR is a highly flexible software package able to simulate a wide range of plant and animal breeding programs for diploid and autopolyploid species. AlphaSimR is ideal for testing the overall strategy and detailed design of breeding programs. AlphaSimR utilizes a scripting approach to building simulations that is particularly well suited for modeling highly complex breeding programs, such as commercial breeding programs. The primary benefit of this scripting approach is that it frees users from preset breeding program designs and allows them to model nearly any breeding program design. This paper lists the main features of AlphaSimR and provides a brief example simulation to show how to use the software.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Stochastic Simulation, Breeding Programs, R
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 1-5
• Numbering: Vol. 11, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-132566
• UDC: 636:633
• ISSN on article: 2160-1836
• DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkaa017
• COBISS.SI-ID: 82766339
• Publication date in RUL: 29.10.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: G3
• Shortened title: G3
• Publisher: Genetics Society of America
• ISSN: 2160-1836
• COBISS.SI-ID: 3033992

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 07.12.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: živinoreja, rastlinska pridelava, rejski program pridelave, simulacije, program R, AlphaSimR