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meeting at 14.12.07

design of a new data format to store population genetics data:
- XML or XML like
- not to complex that you can have a look on your data in the text format
- e.g.:
  - header: Name, Population, number of loci, history of loci (IDs), (loci information), no of individuals/sequences, interleaved data,…
  - data: in a table like form with IDs, Frequency, Data (<ID>…</ID> <Freq>…</Freq> <Genot>…</Genot>)
also look at different databases:
- ENSEMBL
- HapMap
- HGDP
- ENCODE (resequencing HapMap)

R-lequin:
- give information about how to structure and set XML tags in the output of Arlequin (good visualisation and data extraction to make graphics)
- to do until January