BPGA: an interactive Shiny application for basic population genetic analysis of genotype data

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This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. This is version 5 of this Preprint. You must log in to post a comment. There are no comments or no comments have been made public for this article. This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. This is version 5 of this Preprint. Add a Comment You must log in to post a comment. Comments There are no comments or no comments have been made public for this article. Background: Population structure and ancestry inference are routine in human genetics, yet remain inconvenient for non-experts because canonical tools (PLINK, GCTA, ADMIXTURE) require command-line expertise and careful data management. Results: BPGA (Basic Population Genetic Analysis) is an open‑source R/Shiny application that provides an interactive workflow for educational and exploratory population genetic analyses on datasets in PLINK binary format. BPGA executes LD‑pruned PCA, genome‑wide Fst scans, and ADMIXTURE clustering from a guided interface, and it can optionally merge user data with curated worldwide reference panels (1000 Genomes Project and Human Genome Diversity Project). The app produces publication‑ready figures (PNG/HTML), interactive views (plotly/leaflet), and preserves logs for reproducibility. Availability: Source code is available at https://github.com/jfibla/BPGA-a-Shiny-app-to-perform-Basic-Population-Genetic-Analysis under the Apache‑2.0 license. Conclusions: BPGA lowers the barrier between raw genotype data and interpretable population‑genetic summaries for research and teaching, while keeping analyses transparent and reproducible. https://doi.org/10.32942/X2VC7T Bioinformatics, Education, Genetics and Genomics, Higher Education, Life Sciences Population genetics, PCA, admixture, FST, Human Genetics, methods/software, genomics Published: 2025-08-31 14:18 Last Updated: 2026-01-09 12:19 CC BY Attribution 4.0 International Conflict of interest statement: The author declares no competing interests Data and Code Availability Statement: Source code is openly available at https://github.com/jfibla/BPGA-a-Shiny-app-to-perform-Basic-Population-Genetic-Analysis. A hosted demo is also available at http://15.188.54.171:3838/bpga_app/ Language: English

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