Today I had the pleasure to attend a workshop put together by the stdpopsim consortium. The primary goal of the group is the creation of a highly standardized set of population genetic simulation models to be used in a variety of research purposes (e.g. testing out new analysis methods, comparisons of historical results to more recently derived... Read more 01 Apr 2021 - less than 1 minute read
Chapter 2: Forces of change in allele frequencies In a population of gazelles, 200 individuals were analyzed for the $\alpha$ - amylase gene, finding three allelic variants (A$_1$,A$_2$,A$_3$) and the observed genotype frequencies indicated in the following table. Genotype A1A1 A1A2 A1A3 A2A2 A2A3 ... Read more 01 Apr 2021 - less than 1 minute read
Some of my first blogging came from a few years stint contributing to The Molecular Ecologist, a great source of information and summaries of ongoing research coming from the publishers of Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources. If you’re interested you can find the different pieces I worked on either myself or upon my invitation usi... Read more 31 Mar 2021 - less than 1 minute read
So I’m giving this another try! I’m less sure now how much of a notebook vs. blog this will be. Maybe a bit of both. Let’s try a few posts and see what we think of the layout. Read more 31 Mar 2021 - less than 1 minute read
A couple of weeks ago I learned about the Clubhouse app on Twitter. I saw a few messages posted by a fellow population geneticist participating in a ‘room’ focused on Popgen and whatnot and I was very intrigued. I think maybe I was just missing seeing talks and interacting with people and so I really wanted to get in. For a time I had some diffi... Read more 19 Mar 2021 - 1 minute read