LOSITAN

Generally speaking, the study of molecular selection and adaptation in the genome has a wide applicability that ranges from basic human health to the conservation of various endangered species. These studies can be conducted via a plethora of methods, based on each scientist's approach and specialty. Nevertheless, those siding to the outliner techniques, which are widely used in this sense, prefer the fdist method.The fdist method is a function commonly found in all programs dealing with advanced calculations. The function permits a return of the one-tailed probability from an F distribution, either diversity or degree, from two data sets. Therefore, the fdist function enables you to establish whether two data sets have distinct diversity or degrees.LOSITAN is a selection detection workbench that permits you to make these measurements more conveniently. The application requires you have Java installed, but it may present incompatibilities with the latest versions.Among the noteworthy features of the application, you can count automatic and transparent download of the latest version of fdist, data import in Genepop format, data export to R or other commonly used spreadsheets, the possibility to choose the loci or populations that are studied and an approximating average simulated Fst to the average value, just to name a few.