title: PGDSpider: an automated data conversion tool for connecting population genetics and genomics programs.
abstract: The analysis of genetic data often requires a combination of several approaches using different and sometimes incompatible programs. In order to facilitate data exchange and file conversions between population genetics programs, we introduce PGDSpider, a Java program that can read 27 different file formats and export data into 29, partially overlapping, other file formats. The PGDSpider package includes both an intuitive graphical user interface and a command-line version allowing its integration in complex data analysis pipelines.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  PGDSpider is freely available under the BSD 3-Clause license on http://cmpg.unibe.ch/software/PGDSpider/.
authors: Computational and Molecular Population Genetics (CMPG) laboratory, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Berne, Baltzerstrasse 6, 3012 Berne, Switzerland. heidi.lischer@iee.unibe.ch
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authors: HE
authors: Lischer
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authors: Excoffier
mesh_terms: D005828:Genetics, Population; D023281:Genomics; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface