The GenetSim project was started by Mike Miller while he was working in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Minnesota. He is now in Psychology Department at the same university. His primary collaborator and the manager of the code base was Gregg R. Lind, but Gregg left the project. Soon-Young Jang also made key contributions to the code, especially some C++ code that speeded the simulations greatly. Na (Michael) Li formerly of Biostatistics at U Minnesota, also worked on the project, mostly in a collegial, consulting role.
A list of the GAW15 papers that made use of our simulated data is available here.
All GenetSim code, once released, is freely available under the GNU General Public License. You may read the license here.
Very early GenetSim code used to generate the data for GAW 15 Problem 3. That code is available here. That code was written primarily in the Octave language, but Gregg Lind has ported the Octave code to the R language. We hope to release that code soon as an R package.
Mike Miller and Na (Michael) Li presented a poster at IGES 2005 in Park City, Utah. Here is a copy of their poster in either PDF (two pages with figure on second page) or PowerPoint. In that project, again with major contributions from Gregg Lind and Soon-Young Jang, they showed that code written in Octave was able to generate a facsimile of the entire GAW 10 data set in about 30 minutes (i.e., using the published model description, pedigree structures, etc.).
We will add more to this page as it becomes available.
Please send comments, feature requests, etc. to Mike Miller at mbmiller+genetsim@gmail.com