A Genetic Distances Statistical Generator

Contributors: Audra K. Johnson, James A. Foster, Celeste J. Brown, Larry J. Forney

StatGen uses information from a genetic distance matrix or a phylogenetic tree, both of which are generated by the HiTSA pipeline, to summarize the sequence variation within or between groups of sequences. StatGen produces a table with the mean, standard deviation, minimum, maximum and quartile values for the pair-wise genetic distances among the sequences being compared, and a jpeg file of a box plot of these values. StatGen runs on multiple operating systems using Java.

Screenshot of Statgen

1. Newick tree structure of clustered sequences
2. List of sequences.
3. Groups of sequences to be compared.
4. Statistics summarized as boxplot
5. Tree view of clustered sequences

We are currently working on putting Statgen up on SourceForge.