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+# admixcov_sims
+
+Simulation workflow associated with the paper "The contribution of admixture, selection, and genetic drift to four thousand years of human allele frequency change" by Alexis Simon and Graham Coop.
+
+To run this workflow:
+```
+snakemake -c {threads} --use-conda
+```