<scp>convert</scp>: A user‐friendly program to reformat diploid genotypic data for commonly used population genetic software packages

Abstract

Abstract convert is a user‐friendly, 32‐bit Windows program that facilitates ready transfer of codominant, diploid genotypic data amongst commonly used population genetic software packages. convert reads input files in its own ‘standard’ data format, easily produced from an excel file of diploid, codominant marker data, and can convert these to the input formats of the following programs: gda , genepop , arlequin , popgene , microsat , phylip , and structure . convert can also read input files in genepop format. In addition, convert can produce a summary table of allele frequencies in which private alleles and the sample sizes at each locus are indicated.