{"id":116,"date":"2026-01-26T18:46:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/degiorgiogroup\/?page_id=116"},"modified":"2026-01-26T19:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:09:18","slug":"ballet-balancing-selection-likelihood-test","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/degiorgiogroup\/ballet-balancing-selection-likelihood-test\/","title":{"rendered":"BALLET (BALancing selection LikElihood Test)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BALLET<\/strong><\/em> (BAL<\/strong>ancing selection L<\/strong>ikE<\/strong>lihood T<\/strong>est)
A program written in C that can perform genomic scans for balancing selection using the composite likelihood ratio tests of DeGiorgio et al<\/em>. (2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n[Click to download manual<\/a>]
[Click to download software<\/a>]
[Click to download simulated frequency spectra (n<\/em>\u00a0= 2, 3, …, 200)<\/a>]\n\n\n\n

Results of genome scans for balancing selection using BALLET<\/em> as applied to the CEU and YRI populations from the Complete Genomics dataset in DeGiorgio et al<\/em>. (2014).
[Click to download scan results<\/a>]\n\n\n\n

On a UNIX system, extract the compressed files using the command
tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz
where filename is either ballet_v1.0 or simulated_spectra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Software history<\/strong>
March 13, 2018 – Modified formula for estimation of inter-species coalescent time (thank you to Sylvain Mousset)
February 1, 2018 – Fixed bug in estimation of inter-species coalescent time when the sequence length is too large (thank you to Linda Boettger)
August 7, 2017 – Uploaded more simulated frequency spectra (spectra n<\/em> = 2, 3, …, 200)
August 27, 2014 – Uploaded more simulated frequency spectra (spectra n<\/em> = 2, 3, …, 100)
August 21, 2014 – Uploaded version 1.0 of the software and manual (spectra n<\/em> = 2, 3, …, 50)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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