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 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.
 
+Depends on:
+- `snakemake`
+- `conda`
+
 To run this workflow:
 ```
 snakemake -c {threads} --use-conda