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Now available in 64-bit for Mac and Linux platforms. A PC version will be available in due course. The 34-bit versions for all platforms are still available for download.
Minor Update of v2.1 March 2018
The update corrects an error in the mac version of the software where the output file had only headers (no content) when the Frequency Output file was chosen on the interface.
Please download the latest version.
NeEstimator V2 is a tool for estimating contemporary effective population size (Ne) using multi-locus diploid genotypes from population samples. By ‘contemporary’ we mean that the estimates apply to the time period(s) encompassed by the samples (ie. individuals sampled and genotyped).
Version 2.1 is a major update on V2.01. The changes largely enhance the linkage disequilibrium (LD) capacity of the software for the estimation of genetic effective population size. Enhancements include faster estimation of Burrows r, option to estimate r between loci on different chromosomes or linkage groups (user needs to upload linkage information), improved method of estimating jackknifed confidence intervals and improvements to handling low frequency alleles.
Download the new version here.
There was a typo in the v2.01 code that caused the lower jacknife confidence interval to be printed as ‘infinite’ when the upper interval was infinite. This has been corrected.
Another minor issue has been fixed also. Previously the software did not correctly print out information about monomorphic loci for temporal samples. This problem occurred when one population consisted of several samples and there were monomorphic loci present. This was not an issue for the single-sample methods (LD, Hets Excess and Molecular Coancestry)
You can download the software here.
Go to the Downloadables page for the latest version of the NeEstimator software. Version 2.01 is a minor update of v2.0.
The software is described here.
Since its launch in August 2013, the software has been downloaded over 600 times.
Post graduate student Andy Jones has published a new method for computing confidence intervals on genetic estimates of effective size.
The NeEstimator development group is working on incoporating this new method into the software.
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