Category Archives: STRUCTURE

Admixture maps in R for Dummies

Posted on 13 Nov, 2014 by Arun Sethuraman

Before we get started, I’d like to point everyone to an excellent tutorial here by Kim Gilbert on making maps in R. I have been grappling with overlaying admixture plots, and migration routes on top of maps recently, and thought I’d put … Continue reading →

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Using R to run parallel analyses of population genetic data in STRUCTURE: ParallelStructure

Posted on 3 Sep, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

In this guest post, Francois Besnier explains how to use ParallelStructure, his new R package for running STRUCTURE analyses in parallel computing environments. To start with, thanks to The Molecular Ecologist blog team (Tim and Jeremy) for the invitation to … Continue reading →

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Why do we care about population structure?

Posted on 9 Jul, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

Arun Sethuraman is a postdoctoral associate with Jody Hey, studying statistical models for divergence population genetics in the Department of Biology at Temple University. You can also find him on Twitter, and on his short story blog. After nearly six years of researching population genetic structure … Continue reading →

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