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Copyright 1994 by Robert A. Desharnais, California State University, LA GeneticDrift was created for an introductory college course in population genetics. It simulates stochastic fluctuations of allele frequencies in small populations due to random genetic drift. Population size can vary from two to one hundred diploid individuals, any initial allele frequency can be chosen, and anywhere from one to one thousand populations can be simulated simultaneously. Students can switch among several different views: allele frequency versus time, mean allele frequency versus time, mean heterozygosity versus time, the observed distribution of allele frequencies, or the predicted theoretical distribution of allele frequencies. The applications shows running values for the number of polymorphic populations, the number populations fixed for either allele, the average allele frequency, the average heterozygosity, and the mean time to allele fixation. The graphs can printed or copied and pasted into other applications.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.