A while ago, a friend of mine needed to download a number of different DNA sequences from Genbank, the online repository for the vast majority of DNA sequences read from all organisms by labs all over the world. This is not a problem. The "ape" package in R has a ... [Read more...]

Previously, I shared with the world a function to create a pairwise matrix of the number of transitions and transversions between two DNA sequences. Klaus Schliep kindly pointed out the possibility of a bug in the function and offered a faster, more accurate version. Thanks Klaus! titv mat res for(... [Read more...]

It's funny how things happen. Yesterday I was working away on a project in R and the unenjoyable happens---the process hangs for longer than desired. I operate R in the standard GNOME terminal in Ubuntu and the only way I knew was to close the entire a... [Read more...]

Emmanuel Paradis, the mastermind behind 'ape' has struck again. This time he brings us the 'pegas' package, the Population and Evolutionary Genetic Analysis system. This package has a function that collapses the haplotypes (unique DNA sequences) in a DNA alignment, something which is extremely useful in various analyses and in ... [Read more...]

There's been a number of earthquakes in the Solomon Islands over the past few days, including one that caused a tsunami to partially destroy the village of Baniata on Rendova, Western Provence. You can see exactly how many earthquakes have occurred the... [Read more...]

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