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jackalope

A Swift, Versatile Phylogenomic and High-Throughput Sequencing Simulator

v1.1.6 · Sep 29, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Simply and efficiently simulates (i) variants from reference genomes and (ii) reads from both Illumina <https://www.illumina.com/> and Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) <https://www.pacb.com/> platforms. It can either read reference genomes from FASTA files or simulate new ones. Genomic variants can be simulated using summary statistics, phylogenies, Variant Call Format (VCF) files, and coalescent simulations—the latter of which can include selection, recombination, and demographic fluctuations. 'jackalope' can simulate single, paired-end, or mate-pair Illumina reads, as well as PacBio reads. These simulations include sequencing errors, mapping qualities, multiplexing, and optical/polymerase chain reaction (PCR) duplicates. Simulating Illumina sequencing is based on ART by Huang et al. (2012) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btr708>. PacBio sequencing simulation is based on SimLoRD by Stöcker et al. (2016) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw286>. All outputs can be written to standard file formats.

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OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 12, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 7, 2026
ERROR r-release-windows-x86_64

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Installation failed.
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OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 2, 2026
NOTE 11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 22, 2026
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

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NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

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installed size is 20.2Mb
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NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 14.6Mb
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    art_profiles   1.5Mb
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ERROR 10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 18, 2026
ERROR r-devel-windows-x86_64

whether package can be installed

Installation failed.
See 'd:/Rcompile/CRANpkg/local/4.6/jackalope.Rcheck/00install.out' for details.
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is 20.0Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    art_profiles   1.5Mb
    libs          17.6Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 20.2Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    art_profiles   1.5Mb
    libs          17.9Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 14.6Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    art_profiles   1.5Mb
    libs          12.3Mb
NOTE 8 OK · 6 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 10, 2026
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

compiled code

File ‘jackalope/libs/jackalope.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

compiled code

File 'jackalope/libs/x64/jackalope.dll':
  Found non-API call to R: 'R_UnboundValue'

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See 'Writing portable packages' in the 'Writing R Extensions' manual,
and section 'Moving into C API compliance' for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
NOTE r-patched-linux-x86_64

compiled code

File ‘jackalope/libs/jackalope.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is 20.0Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    art_profiles   1.5Mb
    libs          17.6Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 20.2Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    art_profiles   1.5Mb
    libs          17.9Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 14.6Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    art_profiles   1.5Mb
    libs          12.3Mb
ERROR 7 OK · 6 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 9, 2026
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

compiled code

File ‘jackalope/libs/jackalope.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

whether package can be installed

Installation failed.
See ‘/home/hornik/tmp/R.check/r-devel-gcc/Work/PKGS/jackalope.Rcheck/00install.out’ for details.
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

compiled code

File 'jackalope/libs/x64/jackalope.dll':
  Found non-API call to R: 'R_UnboundValue'

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See 'Writing portable packages' in the 'Writing R Extensions' manual,
and section 'Moving into C API compliance' for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
NOTE r-patched-linux-x86_64

compiled code

File ‘jackalope/libs/jackalope.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is 20.0Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    art_profiles   1.5Mb
    libs          17.6Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 20.2Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    art_profiles   1.5Mb
    libs          17.9Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 14.6Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    art_profiles   1.5Mb
    libs          12.3Mb
NOTE 11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is 20.0Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    art_profiles   1.5Mb
    libs          17.6Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 20.2Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    art_profiles   1.5Mb
    libs          17.9Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 14.6Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    art_profiles   1.5Mb
    libs          12.3Mb

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies ape R6 Rcpp jackalope

Version History

13 tracked
new 1.1.6 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.1.6 ← 1.1.5 diff Sep 28, 2025
updated 1.1.5 ← 1.1.4 diff Nov 27, 2023
updated 1.1.4 ← 1.1.3 diff Oct 14, 2023
updated 1.1.3 ← 1.1.2 diff Jul 5, 2021
updated 1.1.2 ← 1.1.1 diff Feb 9, 2021
updated 1.1.1 ← 1.1.0 diff Jun 14, 2020
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.0 diff Feb 27, 2020
updated 1.0.0 ← 0.1.3 diff Nov 21, 2019
updated 0.1.3 ← 0.1.2 diff Oct 17, 2019
updated 0.1.2 ← 0.1.1 diff Jul 10, 2019
updated 0.1.1 ← 0.1.0 diff Jun 11, 2019
new 0.1.0 Jun 3, 2019