forqs: forward-in-time simulation of recombination, quantitative traits and selection

Summary: forqs is a forward-in-time simulation of recombination, quantitative traits and selection. It was designed to investigate haplotype patterns resulting from scenarios where substantial evolutionary change has taken place in a small number of generations due to recombination and/or selection on polygenic quantitative traits. Availability and implementation: forqs is implemented as a command-line C++ program. Source code and binary executables for Linux, OSX and Windows are freely available under a permissive BSD license: https://bitbucket.org/dkessner/forqs. Contact: jnovembre@uchicago.edu Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.