The Genepop format is used in many conservation genetics studies. It's the format of the Genepop application and is the de facto format for much population genetics analysis. If you come from other fields (for example, those that have a lot of sequencing experience), you may not have heard of it, but this format is widely used (as its citation record proves) and is worth a look. Here, we will convert some datasets from previous recipes to this format and introduce the Genepop parser in Biopython.
You will need to run the previous recipe because its output is required for this one. I have a small library to help with basic data conversion and charting. You can find this code at https://github.com/tiagoantao/pygenomics, and you can install it with pip
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pip install pygenomics
Note that at this stage, we will not use the Genepop application (this will change in the next recipe), so no need to install it for now.
As usual, this is available in the Chapter04...