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The software opens on a welcome homepage giving basic information and
enabling opening the attached PDF documentation. This can be done either
using the integrated GenAPoPop’s browser, interesting in
situations where the software must be deployed on workstations without
administrator’s rights or with restricted access (like during practical
courses at university), or using the default system PDF file reader,
generally more comfortable than basic integrated browsers. Next, users
are directed to a tab dedicated to upload and describe at a minimum the
composition of the genotype dataset. In this tab, users upload the text
file containing the genotypes, inform the header line (after which all
lines code for one genotype of one individual), inform the 4 main
columns (population, generation, individual identifier, and the column
containing the first allele of the first locus), inform the ploidy (from
1 to 50) and the type of markers (SSR-like or SNP-like). Once the
dataset is uploaded and the required lines and columns labelled, users
are invited to check the data format. If troubles, the verification will
report explicit errors to be corrected, returning the problematic line
of the dataset. The verification passed, users are then invited to
launch one of the three types of analyses performed by
GenAPoPop by clicking on the corresponding button opening a
dedicated new tab.