Hello Biostar community,
This is my first post, so first of all thank you for this amazing community. The posts on here have helped me countless times.
Now to my question. I have recently encountered this paper ( https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mec.14954 ), introducing the realSFS and IBS methods for estimating relatedness between individuals in a wild pop gen sample.
I am keen to try this method out, but I encountered a problem. The program takes bam files, but I am working with already called genotypes. I could go all the way back to the 'raw' data, but that would be a lot of work and it might not make that much of a difference. I do have the data in vcf format as well, converted in R from genind format.
Does anyone know if I can run IBSrelate with data formats other than bam? or should I try the unconventional vcf to bam conversion?
Here is the IBSrelate page (http://www.popgen.dk/software/index.php/IBSrelate)
Cheers, Lorenzo
