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  • Bacterial recombination significantly impacts bacterial evolution, influencing antibiotic resistance spread and phylogenetic inference.
  • Current models like the coalescent with gene conversion (CGC) are computationally intensive, limiting their use with large genomic datasets.
  • There is a need for efficient computational tools to model bacterial genome evolution, especially with the rise of whole-genome sequencing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a computationally efficient model approximating the coalescent with gene conversion for bacterial recombination.
  • To introduce new simulation software, FastSimBac, based on this novel model.
  • To validate the model's accuracy and computational efficiency against existing methods.

Main Methods:

  • Developed the bacterial sequential Markov coalescent (BSMC) model, adapting the sequential Markov coalescent (SMC) approach.
  • Implemented the BSMC model in the FastSimBac simulation software.
  • Utilized Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) to infer evolutionary parameters using the BSMC model.

Main Results:

  • The BSMC model offers a substantial reduction in computational demand compared to the exact CGC model.
  • FastSimBac provides a faster simulation tool with versatile options for various evolutionary scenarios.
  • The BSMC model accurately recovers parameters in ABC inference schemes, demonstrating its reliability.

Conclusions:

  • The BSMC model and FastSimBac software provide an efficient and accurate approach for simulating bacterial genome evolution.
  • These tools can facilitate a deeper understanding of bacterial recombination dynamics and their evolutionary consequences.
  • The developed methods aid in inferring key population genetic parameters from genomic data, exemplified by the analysis of *Bacillus cereus*.