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Making conStruct Input Files

  • May 2, 2018
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As part of my postdoc with Gideon Bradburd, I’m using his new software package conStruct (bioRxiv; GitHub) to analyze dozens of genomic datasets.  conStruct requires three input files: 1) genetic data, 2) coordinate data (longitude in the first column, latitude in the second), and 3) a pairwise distance matrix with the same number of sites […]

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Formatting Microsatellite Data for PCA in EIGENSOFT

At this point, who hasn’t read Patterson et al 2006 about population structure and eigenvector analysis?  It’s a great paper as it introduced the EIGENSOFT package for analyzing genomic data using principal components analysis (PCA).  PCA is a great way to identify both population structure and admixture relationships.  For anyone that works with microsatellites, you […]

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