RNA-Seq-Simulator is a suite of Python programs for realistic simulation of the short reads from Illumina RNA-Seq
experiments. It was developed at the Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics of Concordia University and is
released under a FreeBSD license.
Installation
Decompress the download package in any convenient location.
To use the programs you will need to have the following programs installed on your PATH:
python (2.7 or later) with packages biopython (1.60 or later),pysam, numpy (available from https://pypi.python.org/pypi)
bedtools (available from http://code.google.com/p/bedtools)
bam2fastq (available from www.hudsonalpha.org/gsl/information/software/bam2fastq)
samtools (available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/samtools/files/samtools/)
bgzip and tabix (available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/samtools/files/tabix/)
Usage
See doc/Tutorial.txt for a usage example.