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At ZSL, our team of expert scientists and academics create proprietary scientific software with the aim of helping scientists everywhere deepen their understanding and knowledge of the living world. 

The scientific software at ZSL is distributed for free for academic use, and is designed to help scientists solve some of the most complex challenges facing wildlife and the natural world. 

Generating the data and insight needed to find new and better routes to recovery, we empower global efforts to achieve lasting, positive change and support life everywhere.

The software that is currently available to download helps users with the objectives that include but are not limited to: 

  • Estimating a range of parameters of an age structured population with overlapping generations
  • Estimating the number of populations from the outputs of STRUCTURE analyses
  • Estimating the IBD (identical by descent) coefficients between a pair of individuals from their genotype data 
  • Making unsupervised population structure analysis from the marker genotype data of a sample of individuals
  • Estimating the pairwise relatedness between individuals 
  • Estimating the admixture proportions and genetic drift using data on genetic markers

Browse the available scientific software at ZSL below: 

Our software

    EMIBD9 software screenshot
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    EMIBD9

    EMIBD9 implements a maximum likelihood method to estimate the IBD coefficients between a pair of individuals from their genotype data

    PopCluster software screenshot
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    PopCluster

    Find out more about, and download, PopCluster, a program that makes unsupervised population structure analysis from the marker genotype data of a sample of individuals.

    COANCESTRY software screenshot
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    COANCESTRY

    COANCESTRY helps users estimate relatedness and inbreeding coefficients, and more.

    COLONY software screenshot
    Download COLONY

    COLONY

    COLONY implements a maximum likelihood method to assign sibship and parentage jointly

    AuntExcPrb software screenshot
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    AuntExcPrb

    AuntExcPrb calculates or simulates the probability of excluding N aunts from the maternity of a male by using L codominant marker data

    CoDiDi software screenshot
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    CoDiDi

    CoDiDiĀ calculates single locus GST and HS values, and more.

    MLNe software screenshot
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    MLNe

    MLNe calculates maximum likelihood estimates of effective population size (Ne) and migration rate from the observed temporal and spatial differences in marker allele frequencies

    KinInfor software screenshot
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    KinInfor

    KinInfor calculates the informativeness of markers in inferring pairwise relatedness or relationships

    AgeStructure software programme promotional image
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    AgeStructure

    AgeStructure estimates the generation interval, effective size, variances and covariance's of lifetime number of offspring of an age structured population with overlapping generations

    KFINDER software screenshot
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    KFINDER

    KFINDER allows users to estimate the most likely number of populations from the outputs of STRUCTURE analyses