Admixture Experiments

[nathanm]

I've started using this forum's blog function to write about my experiments using Admixture. So far, I've posted an introduction and the results from my first successful experiment. I'll continue with a tutorial how you can run Admixture experiments of your own, should you so desire.

[thetick]

Glad to see the interest. I've dabbled with the admixture and plink tools. There's a new tool that has created some excitement with BGA scientists/amateurs. See http://paintmychromosomes.com

[nathanm]

I've seen some of the posts about it. The first half doesn't look like a very intuitive visualization, but the PCA it feeds into looks good. Have you tried it out yet?

[thetick]

No I have not due to lack of data. True, the visualization of the found haplogroups is a little difficult to absorb, but that is not the intent. The data from those found haplogroups should be very powerful. Vadim and/or David converted some of their data sets to the format needed for the tool. There's a perl script to convert plink data at the website, so it's not hard to do. I have not seen anyone post converted data yet, but I have not asked either.

See http://www.forumbiodiversity.com/sho...t=17906&page=6 for Vadim's write up. Also note David is switching to this new tool for his new Eurogenes v2 project.