CONVERT

version 1.31 (March 2005)
CONVERT is a user-friendly, 32-bit Windows program that facilitates ready transfer of co-dominant, diploid genotypic data amongst commonly used population genetic software packages.

• Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP

• co-dominant, diploid genotypic data

• GENEPOP
• Excel file:
  • first line (cell A1): brief description of the data file
  • second line (cell A2): number of populations present in the data file (e.g.: npops = 2)
  • third line (cell A3): number of loci (e.g.: nloci = 7)
  • fourth line: names of the loci (in order, without spaces, underscores are allowed)
  • Each population starts with the line pop = pop_name (there must be at least one space between 'pop' and '=', no spaces within population name, underxcores are allowed)
  • Each individual within a population begins with an individual name (can be numeric, not allowed: '/', '=', '?', ':', ';' or ',', no spaces within names)
  • After an individual’s name, the diploid genotypes are given for that individual:
    • on the same line or wrapped to the next line
    • alleles must be given in numeric form (two alleles for each locus)
    • They can be any integer between 1 and 9999
    • Typically the numbers will indicate the size of the allele in base pairs (e.g., for microsats)
    • Missing data: '?'
  • Creating a text input file from the EXCEL file: 'File|Save As…' in EXCEL. Save the file as: 'Text(Tab delimited)(*.txt)'

• GDA
• GENEPOP
• Arlequin
• POPGENE
• MICROSAT
• PHYLIP
• STRUCTURE
• can produce a summary table of allele frequencies in which private alleles and the sample sizes at each locus are indicated