Outputting a format for COLONY

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Ryan

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Mar 25, 2020, 8:48:45 AM3/25/20
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Dear all,

I have rad-seq data of many samples of bumblebee and I'm using Stacks to help analyse it. However, one step I want to do is to identify siblings, so I can just use one bee sample per colony in the analysis. The software I was recommended and is commonly used to do this is COLONY, but you have to make its custom input file. I used populations to get the Structure file format, as this was similar to COLONY, but I've found it's not similar enough.

Does anyone know a better approach to use Stacks to produce the sample ID and genotype of each sample in the format needed for COLONY? Or any other way I can do this?

Thank you for reading this.

All the best,
Ryan

Ingrid Spies

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Mar 25, 2020, 9:13:40 AM3/25/20
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Hi Ryan
I've used Colony but it can only take a limited number of SNPs. Setting up the files was a pain - I can send you examples if you like, but later I tried apparent, an R package https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/apparent/ which could use all my data and I liked better. I see that it seems to have been archived though....

Ingrid

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Brenna Levine

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Mar 25, 2020, 10:53:59 AM3/25/20
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Hi Ryan,

For pedigree reconstruction, you might want to try the R package Sequoia by Jisca Huisman. It's designed for SNPs and you can use a plink file output from Stacks as the input. 

Brenna 


Ryan

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Mar 27, 2020, 1:39:46 PM3/27/20
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Thank you for the advice Ingrid!

All the best,
Ryan


On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:13:40 UTC, Ingrid Spies wrote:
Hi Ryan
I've used Colony but it can only take a limited number of SNPs. Setting up the files was a pain - I can send you examples if you like, but later I tried apparent, an R package https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/apparent/ which could use all my data and I liked better. I see that it seems to have been archived though....

Ingrid

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 5:48 AM Ryan <ryanel...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,

I have rad-seq data of many samples of bumblebee and I'm using Stacks to help analyse it. However, one step I want to do is to identify siblings, so I can just use one bee sample per colony in the analysis. The software I was recommended and is commonly used to do this is COLONY, but you have to make its custom input file. I used populations to get the Structure file format, as this was similar to COLONY, but I've found it's not similar enough.

Does anyone know a better approach to use Stacks to produce the sample ID and genotype of each sample in the format needed for COLONY? Or any other way I can do this?

Thank you for reading this.

All the best,
Ryan

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Ryan

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Mar 27, 2020, 1:41:42 PM3/27/20
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Hi Brenna,

Thank you for for reply and this advice!

All the best,
Ryan


On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:53:59 UTC, Brenna Levine wrote:
Hi Ryan,

For pedigree reconstruction, you might want to try the R package Sequoia by Jisca Huisman. It's designed for SNPs and you can use a plink file output from Stacks as the input. 

Brenna 


On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 8:13 AM Ingrid Spies <ingrid...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Ryan
I've used Colony but it can only take a limited number of SNPs. Setting up the files was a pain - I can send you examples if you like, but later I tried apparent, an R package https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/apparent/ which could use all my data and I liked better. I see that it seems to have been archived though....

Ingrid

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 5:48 AM Ryan <ryanel...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,

I have rad-seq data of many samples of bumblebee and I'm using Stacks to help analyse it. However, one step I want to do is to identify siblings, so I can just use one bee sample per colony in the analysis. The software I was recommended and is commonly used to do this is COLONY, but you have to make its custom input file. I used populations to get the Structure file format, as this was similar to COLONY, but I've found it's not similar enough.

Does anyone know a better approach to use Stacks to produce the sample ID and genotype of each sample in the format needed for COLONY? Or any other way I can do this?

Thank you for reading this.

All the best,
Ryan

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Thierry Gosselin

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Mar 29, 2020, 10:22:40 AM3/29/20
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Samantha Ockhuis

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May 12, 2022, 5:46:55 AM5/12/22
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Dear Ingrid,

I would like to use COLONY for pedigree reconstruction. I see from your response that you have used this before but found that setting up the files was difficult. I wanted to know, how did you convert your files for colony format? There is an R package genepopedit where you can convert your genepop file into COLONY format, however I keep on getting errors trying this conversion. How did you convert your files for COLONY format?

Hope to hear from you soon!

Kind Regards,
Samantha

Karina Soares

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Aug 31, 2022, 7:49:11 AM8/31/22
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Hi  Samantha!
Did you manage to convert the file? What did you use?

Cheers,
Karina

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