New background

Huge news! Changed the blog background.

Well okay, maybe that's not so huge, but at least it may be little easier on the eye. I'll look at customizing the background at some point.

In other news, GEDmatch's Neanderthal/Denisova genome comparison tool I covered in last post has been disabled for a few days. Wonder what's up with that? I doubt that can be due to too high load, as the site suffers under high load all the time, and those features can't be more demanding than many of the others they offer.

Hopefully they'll be back soon with little more detailed break-down of the similarity percentages.

No posts on the blog doesn't neccessarily mean nothing's going on in the background... I've been running some experimental analysis on admixtures, as briefly explained in earlier blog post. As of today, my computer's been crunching on the data 2 weeks straight. The idea was to get some basic sample data to illustrate a few point about admixtures, in particular as implemented by ADMIXTURE utility.

I didn't expect to spend so much computer time on initial exploration, but it's been producing little more varied results and running little faster than I expected, so I've decided to let it run longer, but am fast running out of reasonable scope. I may get around to posting some basics about it here this week.

The blog has so far been about genetic testing and genetic genealogy, I'm considering keeping it that way as this may make it easier for people interested in the topic to find it. The blog name refers to class of algorithms that is often used in complex simulations and analysis (which was to be my major at university) in any case, but it's also oftentimes and apt description of my methods, in particular with regards to blogs and such :)