As computer scientist, I am very excited about our new biogeography simulator: bigrig - my PostDoc Ben Bettisworth implemented two algoritmically totally distinct simulators from scratch to conduct statistical tests for showing that bigrig is correctly implemented: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Quality software tools for science are, as a necessity, rigorously tested and verified. However, there is a major challenge to testing software used for phylogenetics and similar analysis. There is a ...