I recently launched WATO+, the new version of What are the Odds? Suggest Hypotheses is a popular feature in the tool. The goal of this function is to try out every possible position in the tree for the unknown parent. However, this can be a mixed blessing as sometimes there are an overwhelming number of
Exciting times: the new version of What are the Odds? (WATO) will be released within the next month. This includes a raft of updates that I hope will make the tool more useful and easier to understand.
As I mentioned last month, DNA Painter will once again be exhibiting at RootsTech in Salt Lake City, Utah this year. In this post I’ll give a quick overview of what we’ll be doing at the conference.
I’m looking forward to speaking at OGS 2024 this year. Run by the Ontario Genealogical Society, this event takes place from June 14th-16th 2024 in Toronto at Delta Hotels by Marriott Toronto Airport. This year’s conference theme is “An Interactive Experience – Explore, Engage, Enjoy!”
In two short months, RootsTech 2024 will take place in Salt Lake City, Utah and online at rootstech.org. The conference has played a key role in DNA Painter’s history. In this post, I’ll provide a quick recap of how and why.
I launched the DNA Painter blog on December 30th, 2019. The last four years have seen the release of several new tools. I’ve also been delighted to present several fascinating guest posts. Here is a recap on the ten most popular posts to date, measured by the number of page views.
In early October 2023, it emerged that a bad actor had used stolen passwords to gain unauthorized access to 23andMe accounts. This has had some knock-on effects, and the situation with segment data has changed: Luckily we can still get segment data from everywhere except 23andMe (and AncestryDNA, where it was never available in the
This post introduces three new improvements to the popular What are the Odds? tool: vertical display mode; improved suggested hypotheses; and ALT-drag to copy when in drag and drop mode.
The fifth post in a series aiming to surface features at DNA Painter that you might not be aware of. This time I’m focusing on different views within your chromosome map.
As of September 2023, it will be five years since I launched subscriptions at DNA Painter. In this article I’ll summarize why you might want to subscribe, and what you get if you do.