EZpcoa Instructions


EZpcoa performs Principal Coordinates Analysis (PCoA) on aligned DNA sequences, with samples coloured by population.

A pairwise genetic distance matrix is computed from the alignment (K2P or p-distance) and classical multidimensional scaling (MDS) is applied. Ambiguous IUPAC characters are skipped per pair during distance computation.

Each unique haplotype is plotted as a pie chart at its mean ordination coordinates, with slices coloured by population and size proportional to the square root of haplotype frequency. Outputs include PC scatter plots, a scree plot, PC coordinate and eigenvalue tables, and the pairwise distance matrix.

  • Aligned FASTA. All sequences must be aligned (.fasta, .fa, .fna). Minimum 3 sequences.
  • Population map *. Tab-separated file with two columns:
    sequence_name	population_name
    ind001	PopA
    ind002	PopA
    ind003	PopB
    ind004	PopC

Upload Your Files


Drag & drop FASTA file here
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Drag & drop population map here
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Qualitative palettes (20 or fewer populations)

Continuous palettes (more than 20 populations)

*If not provided, a random job ID will be assigned.