News from the Thornton lab

New version of ABCreg

April 18, 2013 12:23
New version of ABCreg is available. No changes in functionality, but just basic updates to the code to make it compile with today’s more picky compilers.

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Coalescent simulation software update

April 15, 2013 12:39
New versions of two simulation packages are available here. The simulations from Thornton and Jensen (2007) and Jensen et al. (2008) have been updated to compile on recent versions of GCC/clang.

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Fly meeting 2013

March 28, 2013 13:32 Filed in: Conferences
Rebekah Rogers and Kevin Thornton will be at the Drosophila research conference in Washington DC (April 3-7). Rebekah will be presenting a poster (#523A) entitled “Copy number variation and the limits of natural seleciton in Drosophila yakuba and Drosophila simulans.”

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Simulated case/control data README now online

March 27, 2013 13:19
A README file describing the simulated case/control panels described in Thornton, Foran, and Long (2013) PLoS Genetics (article here) is available from the Data section of the lab website.

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Poster at CCBS retreat

March 25, 2013 09:00
Jim Baldwin-Brown, a PhD student in Tony Long’s lab, presented his first poster at the UCI CCBS annual retreat. Jim presented work on simulating “evolve and resequence” experiments (e.g., Burke et al.) in collaboration with Kevin Thornton.

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