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Abstract
The first step of many population genetic studies is the simple visualization of allele frequencies on a landscape. This basic data exploration can be challenging without proprietary software, and the manual plotting of data is cumbersome and unfeasible at large sample sizes. I present an open source, web-based program that plots any kind of frequency or count data as pie charts in Google Maps (Google Inc., Mountain View, CA). Pie polygons are then exportable to Google Earth (Google Inc.), a free Geographic Information Systems platform. Import of genetic data into Google Earth allows phylogeographers access to a wealth of spatial information layers integral to forming hypotheses and understanding patterns in the data.Mesh:
Year: 2010 PMID: 21481214 DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02964.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Ecol Resour ISSN: 1755-098X Impact factor: 7.090