This is a port of John Conery's Genetic Simulation Library (GSL) to "modern" C++. Genetic Simulation Library was part of several publications and was described in

Conery JS and M Lynch. 1999. Genetic Simulation Library. Bioinformatics 15(1): 85-86. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/15.1.85

From the original README:

GSL is a set of C++ classes for incorporating genetics in population models. Source code can be freely copied and distributed subject to the constraints spelled out in the copyright notice at the end of this file and in the file named COPYRIGHT in this directory.

Version 1.0 was released in 1997, and no updates have been made since that time. This version is still available at John's site, http://www.csi.uoregon.edu/projects/genetics/GSL, as well as in the version-1.0 folder of this repository.

Since 1997, C++ practices have changed, and GSL wouldn't compile with at least a modern (4.0+) g++. Since I'd like to use GSL I decided to port it and make it available here, with John's permission. I initiated the repository with John's original source code, then added my port on top, so you can unroll back to 1997 if you'd like or if I've inadvertantly introduced a bug of some kind.

I've used the name GeneticSimLib as the original acronym, GSL, is now closely associated with the Gnu Scientific Library.

Changes introduced by the port, some were required for compilation, some to silence warnings:

• Rename file.C to file.cpp
• Compile with CPP instead of CC
• Adding std:: to names in the std namespace
• Removing '.h' from standard headers
• Parens around assignments within if expressions
• Reimplement some char* code using std::string (more can be done here)
• Make dtor in RNG and RNGSeed base classes virtual to ensure derived classes clean everything up
• Remove some unnecessary forward declarations of ostream
• Bitwise operations with &
• Label #endif wrappers

Some caveats:

• I haven't tested this port!
• Some original demos which used the XForms library don't link
• Namespaces are not yet incorporated

GeneticSimLib/ : The ported source code

version-1.0/ : The version 1.0 source code

Copyright (c) 1997 by the University of Oregon.  
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