What it does
POPMAPS2 turns empirical ancestry estimates into raster surfaces that can show hard population boundaries, ancestry probability, ancestry coefficients, and areas of interpolation uncertainty.
Tools
POPMAPS2 for population genomic mapping.
POPMAPS2 is a maintained successor to POPMAPS that estimates ancestry coefficients and ancestry probability surfaces from empirical genetic data across user-defined geospatial layers.
POPMAPS2
Spatial guidance from empirical ancestry estimates.
The tool is currently in public alpha: installable, tested, documented, and usable for validation work, while the public API is still being stabilized before the software manuscript and CRAN submission.
Where it fits
It is designed as a downstream analysis tool. Population structure, species distribution modeling, EEMS/FEEMS, and resistance modeling run upstream, then their outputs can be supplied to POPMAPS2.
Why it matters
Spatially explicit summaries of intraspecific genetic variation can support seed sourcing, rare plant conservation, translocation planning, and other landscape-scale stewardship decisions.
Current access
Documentation and source code.
POPMAPS2 documentation
Package documentation, examples, function references, and development notes for current POPMAPS2 workflows.
POPMAPS2 GitHub repository
Source code, issue tracking, installation instructions, and the current development history for the R package.
Original POPMAPS paper
Massatti and Winkler's 2022 Methods in Ecology and Evolution paper describing spatially explicit management of genetic diversity using ancestry probability surfaces.