Course materials for ConGen2007

This page contains public course materials for ConGen2007.

Instructor's presentations (private)

Instructors' presentations can be found here.

Dataset usage

We recommend students to use their own datasets in the "hands on" sessions. For that, conversion of existing data might be necessary. If you have any doubts converting data please don't hesitate to contact us.

Conversion programs

Charles Criscione recommended the following conversion utilities:
Convert
Formatomatic

Programs being used during the course

The following programs will be used:

Instructor	Application	Publications	Mac?	Extra material
Oscar Gaggiotti	GESTE	Available	No	Yes
Oscar Gaggiotti	COLONISE	Available	No	None
David Tallmon	OneSamp (online) and LDNe (download)	Available	No	Here
Mark Miller	Alleles in Space	Here	Might work with support from applications like parallels	Some example files installed by the application plus this and this
David Lynn	PAML	Yes	Yes	Available here plus worksheet
Gordon Luikart	Bottleneck	Available here	No	Available here
Jonathan Pritchard	Structure 2.2	Available here, including soft documentation	Yes	Available
Mike Schwartz	Dropout	Available here	No	None
Sam Cushman	GenAlEx plus R	Soon	No	Here
Bruce Rannala	BayesAss special release	Soon	Yes (Ask instructor)	Yes

Extra note: For Sam Cushman's presentation you should also install R. For details please contact, during the course, the instructor directly and not Tiago. We recommend that you check which programs are relevant to your datasets and research questions and that you bring your data in the format required by the programs.
By previous year experience we know that there will not be time, during the course, to do the conversion.