GELSTATS

Gelstats version 2.63 is a program to make population genetic inferences from multilocus VNTR gels. It represents some of the recent results of an ongoing project with Steven H. Rogstad from the Biology Department at U.C. You can obtain copies of various parts of the GELSTATS distribution in a variety of formats:

The latest version of the readme file is Readme.263 This describes the version Gelstats 2.63

1. A DOS executable of the GELSTATS program version 2.63. Be sure to get the README me file too!
2. A compressed version of the DOS executable. You'll need GZIP or WinZip or some such program to uncompress it.
3. A Gzip compressed version of the complete source distribution.

This program computes estimates of gene frequencies, pairwise similarity, heterozygosity and population differentiation (Fst). It uses nonparametric (permutation) methods to compare values of these variables within and between user defined subgroups of the sample.

Additional programs available to manipulate GELSTATS datafiles include

1. dedup a program that removes identical columns from a GELSTATS data file. source code dedup.cpp
2. jack.doc a program for comparing simiarities usung a jacknife.source code jack.cpp.
3. paste.doc aprogram to combine datasets. Source code.
4. ManD (Mom and Dad) a program to enumerate possible parent-offspring relationships based on VNTR data in the GELSTATS format. Source code mand.cpp.