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+===
+sim
+===
+
+.. currentmodule:: inmoose.sim
+
+This module is a partial reimplementation of the R Bioconductor `splatter
+package <https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/splatter.html>`_.
+Its main feature is :func:`sim_rnaseq`, a function to generate simulated RNA-Seq
+or single-cell RNA-Seq data based on the Splat model described in [Zappia2017]_.
+
+.. autosummary::
+   :toctree: generated/
+
+   sim_rnaseq
+
+References
+==========
+
+.. [Zappia2017] L. Zappia, B. Phipson, A. Oshlack. 2017. Splatter: simulation of
+   single-cell RNA sequencing data. *Genome Biology* 18(174).
+   :doi:`10.1186/s13059-017-1305-0`
+
+