Ne.readme                                                  July 1997
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Ne is a program for estimating theta = 4N*mu, where mu is the mutation (substitution) rate per nucleotide site and N is the population size of either an extant species or the common ancestor of two extant species.  The program implements the maximum likelihood methods of Takahata, Satta, and Klein (1995) and Yang (1997) which analyse sequence divergence data from multiple loci. 

The program is distributed by anonymous ftp for academic use free of charge.  Visit the program web page at the following addresses, which provides the full documentation for the program:

      London: http://abacus.gene.ucl.ac.uk/ziheng/Ne.html
      Berkeley: http://mw511.biol.berkeley.edu/ziheng/Ne.html

Ziheng Yang
Department of Biology                 Phone: +44 (171) 504 5083
University College London             Fax:   +44 (171) 383 2048
4 Stephenson Way                      Email: z.yang@ucl.ac.uk  
London NW1 2HE                        
England
http://abacus.gene.ucl.ac.uk/ziheng/ziheng.html
http://mw511.biol.berkeley.edu/ziheng/ziheng.html