Thank you to everyone who replied to my query about software to
calculate mean allele size and variance from SSR data. The majority
recommended MSA by DANIEL DIERINGER and CHRISTIAN SCHLTTERER
(http://i122server.vu-wien.ac.at/MSA/MSA_download.html), and it did
just what I wanted. GenAlEx will export an MSA input file from your
GenAlEx-formatted spreadsheet.
I hadn’t needed these sort of statistics until Pickrell and Pritchard’s
treemix was released.
Cheers,
Alan
Alan W. Meerow, Ph.D., Research Geneticist and Systematist
USDA-ARS-SHRS, National Germplasm Repository
13601 Old Cutler Road, Miami, FL 33158 USA
voice: 786-573-7075; FAX: 786-573-7110
email: alan.meerow@ars.usda.gov