GenAlEx News (Posted 26-2-09)
We are pleased to announce the following Graduate Student Workshops in Genetics to be held at the Australian National University in 2009.
To register or for more information please see: http://www.anu.edu.au/BoZo/workshops/
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Genetic Analysis for Population Studies
July 10-17, 2009.
A course offered by Professor Rod Peakall (ANU) and Professor Peter Smouse (Rutgers University, USA)
This workshop covers a wide range of standard and new statistical procedures for the population analysis and is designed to ensure that students fully understand the procedures involved. For many of the analyses, students will learn to calculate the various statistics by hand, before attempting the self-paced, computer-based tutorial examples. Examples will be drawn from a wide range of organisms.
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Analytical Methods for Population Genetics
October 6 to 9, 2009.
A course offered by Dr David Gordon and Dr Celeste Linde (ANU).
The workshop will present the theoretical framework and concepts necessary to understand the processes shaping the genetic structure of microbial and eukaryote populations. Participants will be introduced to the basic analytical principles underlying a range of public domain software that are available for the analysis of population genetic data.
Note that past experience indicates that these workshops can fill very fast. For example, the Genetic Analysis workshop can fill in just a few days. Therefore, you are encouraged to register immediately.
GenAlEx 6.2
We are pleased to advise that GenAlEx 6.2 is now available. This version has been offered to provide users with access to new spatial genetic analysis procedures that have been developed and described in the following publications:
Smouse, P. E., Peakall, R., and Gonzales, E. (2008) A heterogeneity test for fine-scale genetic structure. Molecular Ecology 17, 3389-3400.
Beck, N., Peakall, R., and Heinsohn, R. (2008) Social constraint and an absence of sex-biased dispersal drive fine-scale genetic structure in white-winged choughs. Molecular Ecology 17, 4346-4358.
To access these journal articles please see: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117989598/issueyear?year=2008
GenAlEx 6.2 also fixes a number of minor bugs and therefore will be the only version available from this web site.
Thank you for using GenAlEx.
Rod Peakall and Peter Smouse
GenAlEx and Macintosh Compatibility
Please note that GenAlEx is not compatible with Office 2008 on the Macintosh. Unfortunately, Microsoft no longer support the macro language Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) used to write GenAlEx . This means any Excel Add-ins including GenAlEx no longer run in Office 2008. The good news is that in the response to the many unhappy customers, rumours indicate Microsoft will bring VBA back to the Mac in future versions of Excel.
(see http://www.macobserver.com/article/2008/05/13.2.shtml)
Meanwhile, the options for Mac users are either: 1. keep Office 2004 on your Mac, 2. run GenAlEx within Office 2007 in Windows on an Intel Mac, or 3. Run GenAlEx on a PC. Note that VBA applications like GenAlEx have always run considerably faster in Windows so options 2 or 3 will be faster especially for larger data sets.
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