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Shared cM Project Tool now available in additional languages

At the top right of the Shared cM Project Tool you’ll now see a dropdown menu allowing you to switch to another language. If you’d like to help translate the tool into a different language, please get in touch.

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Introducing WATO plus, a new tool for investigating family mysteries

What are the odds plus (WATO+), a new and overhauled version of the popular WATO tool, was released last week. In this article I’ll focus on what’s new in WATO+…

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Three ways to generate hypotheses in WATO+

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

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What are the Odds v3 sneak peek

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.

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Most popular posts in the DNA Painter blog, 2019-2023

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.

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Three What are the Odds? (WATO) improvements

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.

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My re-tooled DNA Tools page

The list of standalone tools at DNA Painter was becoming rather unwieldy, so I’ve given it a bit of a revamp. The content is the same as it was, but the layout now includes several additions that I hope you’ll find useful.

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Shared cM histograms: did you know? #3

The Shared cM Project tool is a popular interactive tool that allows you to enter an amount of shared DNA and explore relationship possibilities. In this short post I explain how to access more detail in the shared cM histograms.

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Enhancements to the DNA coverage tool

Last night I released an update with several enhancements to the DNA Coverage tool that I’ll list in this short post.

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How to use the new DNA Coverage tool

The coverage estimator is a new tool at DNA Painter that lets you build a tree or import a GEDCOM and then mark the people in that tree who have tested. It then estimates the DNA coverage for the root person based on the testers. In this post I explain how to use it.

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