ARGscape: A modular, interactive tool for manipulation of spatiotemporal ancestral recombination graphs.

ABSTRACT:

Summary

Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) encode the complete genealogical history of a population of recombining lineages. ARGs, and their succinct representation, tree sequences, are increasingly central to modern population genetics methods, yet building an intuition for ARGs remains challenging. This is particularly true when analyzing ancestry in a geographic context, as there is a critical lack of dedicated, interactive tools capable of visualizing ARGs as spatiotemporal objects. To address this gap, we introduce ARGscape, an interactive platform for simulating, analyzing, and visualizing ARGs across space and time. ARGscape provides a user-friendly graphical interface featuring dynamic 2- and 3-dimensional visualizations to explore ARGs through space and time, as well as

SUBMITTER: Talbot CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12632698 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature